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Jan and I received our invitation letters for the covid vaccination yesterday, 1st Feb.

We immediately entered ourselves onto the NHS web site, which informed us that we had to book both our first, and second appointments at the same time.

Unfortunately, having done so, the system returned “one of your appointment slots no longer available, please rebook”

An hour later, and 10 to 12 “rebooks” (and trying several other site locations) we still did not have an appointment set up.

Sometimes, as the first slot was booked, it immediately returned “ no availability for a second date, please rebook”

There is an option of phoning 119; this we did, and fairly quickly had a person to talk to.
I had hoped that this method might have a more direct link into the booking system. It doesn’t.
The lady had exactly the same problems as ourselves, and after 20 minutes or so, advised us to contact our GP’s surgery.

This morning, 2nd Feb, 6.30 to 7.00am on the web site. No appointments yet.

My thoughts are that:-
Maybe slots are released onto the system at either set times, or random times; but that within 10 minutes they are all gone.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Mike