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Week 88: Seasons ahead

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Frankie Roberto
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A short week for me, as I returned on Wednesday from my skiing weekend (which was great), so I’ll keep these brief too.

Spring

We’ve been getting ready for the start of the Spring 2026 Covid vaccination campaign. As with the winter campaign, this is for those over 75 years old, resident in a care home or immunosuppressed (see JVCI guidance).

For the staff using Record a vaccination (RAVS), we’ll be sending them out an email reminding them to do the usual preparatory things such as making sure the right staff have access to the service, and adding the new vaccine products and batches for the locations where they’ll be giving the vaccinations.

As the service is being continually improved, we’re also taking the opportunity to tell them about some recent updates. We know that some staff like to know about every change, whereas others don’t have time for this and prefer to just discover changes as they use the interface. For those who do want to know, we’ve now added a What’s new page which details the last few months of changes.

My colleague Anna has written a design history post giving more context on this: Telling users what’s new.

We’ll keep an eye on the new page to see what kind of engagement it gets.

Winter

We’re also already planning ahead for next winter. Our roadmap for this is ambitious, with several new features and an expansion for more users in different settings.

One crucial but tricky question is how we can best integrate with the Manage your appointments service, to make recording vaccinations for patients who’ve booked far easier.

Loads of great design history posts published this week:

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums out there!