People over 50 are getting priority for second doses of COVID-19
vaccines, so we're told.
But the only way to find out was to cancel one's existing
appointment and rebook it, so I wasn't taking the chance. Until I got
the email on Friday evening:
As you’re in a high priority group, we’re now able to offer you earlier dates for your 2nd dose vaccination appointment.
You can choose an earlier date for your 2nd dose by either:
- managing your appointment at https://www.nhs.uk/covid-vaccination
- calling 119
If you choose to rebook, we’ll need to cancel your existing appointment to offer you a new date.
All right, thought I, might as well give it a go.
Cancel cancel. Find vaccination centre. Same one, the one I can get to
most easily. What date can they give me that's earlier than 10 June?
10 June, apparently. At 12.45. (I had 12.15 before.)
This is, er, not an earlier date. I suppose there might have been an
earlier one at the second-nearest place, in Beaconsfield, but it's
rather more of a pain to reach… and I didn't want to leave myself with
no appointment at all for longer than was absolutely necessary.
Given my druthers, I'd code the thing to say "you can try to make a
new appointment, and if you succeed we'll automatically cancel your
old one". But if it worked that way I'd have been on the site several
times a day, and maybe they don't want that much traffic.
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