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I don't disagree and my example is clearly personal, although in no way unique.
It pisses me off that getting the word "lumpy" in early seems to excuse huge local and regional variations and a failure to do anything about it.
With regard to communication - and again this is anecdotal - it, like many other things is being managed best locally. My charity has staff and volunteers speaking to isolated and vulnerable older people regularly to try to help them with their concerns (in several different languages), as well as helping at the vaccination centre and ensuring people get there. No fucker is giving us a penny to do this.
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Like just about everything in this pandemic what's needed is clear communication from government, all we're getting is we're doing such a great job on vaccinating, how wonderful (and trying to claim it as their success when it's not, it's the NHS, local authorities, other organisations, volunteers etc. making it happen). And no clear messages on how it works or what you should do.
I sympathise with your dad's situation of course, but realistically the over 80s were never going to all be vaccinated in one go and the decision to start vaccinating people in their 70s has exacerbated the age inequality situation.