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Another shout out for the system here. Given government (and society as whole tbh) track record on mass IT system integration projects, this has been nothing short of a miracle. Almost as amazing as the vaccine development itself. Hopefully some lessons are learnt - I work with IT folks at the DVLA a fair bit and this would blow their minds!
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I had already made an appointment for dose 2 at 12 weeks, at the local ‘big vaccination place’ but was subsequently invited via the GP Practice for one sooner (which was pretty immediate but ended up being a 10-week gap).
I’m 45 so didn’t fit the over-50 threshold but in the Southwest we are well on with the cohorts - the text was right after that policy change to 8-weeks was announced so mustve been associated.
I had the GP surgery dose on Sat then went in to cancel the subsequent, original, booking like a good citizen would, and it’d disappeared. so the system seemed intelligent enough to know I no longer needed another jab.
Or.. it’d cancelled when I rebooked.
TLdR : I didn’t have to cancel in order to re-book.