Oldjohnw wrote:Am I right in thinking that if you had your first through your own GP you don’t get the date for your second (my case) but if you book through the NHS and have it at a centre, you immediately get your second date?
That seems to be a very common observation.
djnotts wrote:From.above and personal sources I suspect that if NHS then 2 dates from outset because that is how the admin system is configured. GP group led programmes have varied approaches, some auto generate the 2nd based on the 1st, some don't. As one would expect of a national v local system.
This feels like the most likely explanation. I have seen the systems and information architecture and it's pretty complex. I don't think that it has been published. But at that point I was only checking that the record of vaccination enters the GPs' clinical information systems, and I wasn't interested in the recall process.
Jonathan
PS: Both methods are "NHS" in some sense. I say "national online" to distinguish that from the method which is driven by the GPs' CIS.
PPS; This may differ between the countries of the UK.