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Got a confirmed vaccine appointment - Post your age and appointment date

JimmyVik

Got a confirmed vaccine appointment - Post your age and appointment date.
So we can see exactly what ages they are vaccinating at any time.
Dont post if you've already been vaccinated.
Obviously I havent got an appointment to post, so am curious to find out what age they are actually doing at the moment.

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[Deleted User]

Hurrache wrote: »

The update text they're sending out asking to read the vaccine leaflet and answer the questions online, are people doing that or is there still an issue with the appointments being cancelled?

Someone posted here yesterday that they did it and had the appointment cancelled. Call centre told them to ignore the text next time. So obviously still an issue.

questionmark?

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Cancel the appointment & they will reschedule the appointment automatically. Keep cancelling until they give you one that suits you. This the way the system is setup.

Was there not mention over the weekend to change this? If you cancelled three appointments then you won't get a new one automatically without getting in touch with them.

FileNotFound

sashafierce wrote: »

Flatmate has an uncle who owns a pharmacy in Cork shes off down there from Dublin today to get her J&J. She didnt register. I don't begrudge anyone a vaccine where they can get it but seems to be whats happening with pharamacy vaccines a lot

I think Boots have their own separate portal now and Hickies.

HSE has just thrown open the flood gates as the request of Donnelly - will be hard to even collate who has what in the lower age groups for a while.

I understand they panicked as they saw the future electorate turn on them but it does seem to be very ropey.

Mind you GP's all over the west have been vaccinating anyone who called with whatever they had for a long time now. Younger brother vaccinated wages ago 30-35, never registered just called the GP up.

seamus

Happydays2020 wrote: »

You can easily adjust how many days emails you want to be stored on your iPhone.

Most people won't. They'll turn up at the MVC and spend five minutes fumbling to try and find it, or be turned away when they don't have coverage and can't bring up the email.

SMS is the simpler solution. The aim here is to maximise the number of people vaxxed, and you do that by having the minimum amount of barriers. Email or Apps works for airlines because people will overcome barriers to make their flight. The person sent away from a vax centre for not having their appoinment email, will delay the whole queue and then just won't come back.

[Deleted User]

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Cancel the appointment & they will reschedule the appointment automatically. Keep cancelling until they give you one that suits you. This the way the system is setup.

You can't do that anymore. They introduced a new rule where if you cancel a certain number of times (it was either more than twice or more than three times) you won't be offered any more appointments.

Hurrache

The update text they're sending out asking to read the vaccine leaflet and answer the questions online, are people doing that or is there still an issue with the appointments being cancelled?

[Deleted User]

Happydays2020 wrote: »

I have a genuine and serious reason for why I cannot attend on time. I rang the HSE helpline whereby I tried to explain the circumstances and was told by an Indian call Centre operative that ‘millions of people’ were trying to change their appointments.

I had no opportunity to speak to a supervisor so the position I am in is that I either get it done earlier on the day or it will be 2/3 weeks before I am in a position to get my second dose.

I fully understand why it cannot be an appointment service and I fully understand why the system will collapse if people just turn up willy nilly at times that do not suit.

Cancel the appointment & they will reschedule the appointment automatically. Keep cancelling until they give you one that suits you. This the way the system is setup.

sashafierce

Flatmate has an uncle who owns a pharmacy in Cork shes off down there from Dublin today to get her J&J. She didnt register. I don't begrudge anyone a vaccine where they can get it but seems to be whats happening with pharamacy vaccines a lot

[Deleted User]

Ive been fully done since May, both jabsl

olestoepoke

xboxdad wrote: »

Which MVC may I ask?

The Helix

[Deleted User]

I'm fully vaccinated a few weeks now. Got a text for an other appointment. Anyone else get this?

On another note, looking back over the last few posts there seem to be a lot in the 50s age group only registering now for some reason

zinfandel

random_banter wrote: »

Dad still waiting for his second dose of AZ.

61, Greystones Centre, due 2nd jab tomorrow (8 wks), no appointment yet. Anyone else similar?

my parents and mil still waiting for 2nd jab DCU 63 and 61 and 59 10 / 9 and 8 weeks

Happydays2020

seamus wrote: »

And they avoid using other forms because there's no guarantee that someone will have coverage at the vax centre. An SMS will always display when you open the app, an email or something else may fail to load at the time. Last time I checked, iPhones only store the last five days of emails. So if someone turns up outside this, opens the app, can't find email, oh, no coverage. Sh1t.

You can easily adjust how many days emails you want to be stored on your iPhone.

seamus

L1011 wrote: »

Huge amount of phones are not correctly set up to receive picture messages. Probably increasingly so as nobody uses them, using WhatsApp or iMessage instead

Entire message would fail to come through not just the barcode

And they avoid using other forms because there's no guarantee that someone will have coverage at the vax centre. An SMS will always display when you open the app, an email or something else may fail to load at the time. Last time I checked, iPhones only store the last five days of emails. So if someone turns up outside this, opens the app, can't find email, oh, no coverage. Sh1t.

Bob24

L1011 wrote: »

Huge amount of phones are not correctly set up to receive picture messages. Probably increasingly so as nobody uses them, using WhatsApp or iMessage instead

Entire message would fail to come through not just the barcode

Text with a link, email, download option on the web portal - there are many ways of doing it. There could also be a PDF on the portail if people prefer a printout. Nowadays this is really considered basic stuff and barcodes are already used as boarding passes, bus/train tickets, event tickets, etc. People have no problem dealing with this kind of thing (especially the remaining younger cohorts).

Just a cheap and simple idea to speed-up verification (quick and easy to implement). Even if a small percentage of people don’t have the code and need to go to a slower queue for manual check, it would help a great deal. But I think issuing appointments and not checking times as it seems to be happening on a regular basis doesn’t make sense.

twomonkeys

L1011 wrote: »

Huge amount of phones are not correctly set up to receive picture messages. Probably increasingly so as nobody uses them, using WhatsApp or iMessage instead

Entire message would fail to come through not just the barcode

But the system used your email address originally when setting up your HSE account, every single person had to verify their details by email…..so a barcode could be sent by email not text.

Burti16

Age: 36
Registered: 20 June
Text: 5 July
Appointment: 10 July
Vaccine: pfizer, 1st dose
Venue: a pharmacy in Dublin City Centre

Didn't know pharmacies are giving Pfizer though

L1011

Bob24 wrote: »

I don’t understand why they’re not issuing a barcode with the appointment text message. At the entrance of large centres they could just scan it on the phone in no time, with the machine saying no if the current time is widely different from the appointment time.

Huge amount of phones are not correctly set up to receive picture messages. Probably increasingly so as nobody uses them, using WhatsApp or iMessage instead

Entire message would fail to come through not just the barcode

Bob24

questionmark? wrote: »

People turning up at the wrong time. Too early, too late etc... the concept of arriving 5 mins before their allocated slot is alien to many.

I don’t understand why they’re not issuing a barcode with the appointment text message. At the entrance of large centres they could just scan it on the phone in no time, with the machine saying no if the current time is widely different from the appointment time.

seamus

Stark wrote: »

Was at 5pm

Yeah, same here. There was one person checking the texts, but that was only after about 20 minutes of queuing. At that stage, they're not going to say, "Nah, you're 30 minutes early, go back to the end of the queue".
I expect if they'd had someone else at the end of the queue doing the same thing they might have been able to send a few people away who'd turned up early.

By all accounts, this is typical in Citywest, as people turn up 30-60 minutes early and over the course of the day a backlog then naturally builds up.

The queue moves at least. You're never left standing there looking at your feet for more than a minute.

xboxdad

tscul32 wrote: »

Age 44
First dose of Pfizer in 8th June. Tomorrow is 4 weeks, no word yet on second dose.
Helix vaccination centre.

Very frustrating. Seems like Helix came to a complete halt in terms of administering 2nd dose Pfizer and the HSE Helpline won't even admit there is any delay specifically with Helix. Wife gets 2nd dose today at Aviva, her appt came in like a week ago. I got my 1st dose 2 days after her and I don't even have a 2nd appt yet.
Ppl are still getting appointments for 1st doses at Helix, so it did not stop getting allocations.
Helix is completely gone from the list of MVCs:
https://www2.hse.ie/Apps/Services/VaccineClinics.aspx?county=Dublin
...and new replacement Swords MVC not listed yet either.
Are we going to get delayed until they eventually open the new MVC in a couple of weeks time?

Stark

brianc27 wrote: »

What time was that at, I had mine at city west today around 11am and from leaving car to getting back to car was no more then 25 mins, seemed to be loads there but everything moving very fast, do they not spread the vaccinations out equally through out the day

Was at 5pm

questionmark?

brianc27 wrote: »

What time was that at, I had mine at city west today around 11am and from leaving car to getting back to car was no more then 25 mins, seemed to be loads there but everything moving very fast, do they not spread the vaccinations out equally through out the day

People turning up at the wrong time. Too early, too late etc... the concept of arriving 5 mins before their allocated slot is alien to many.

brianc27

Stark wrote: »

90 min queue at Citywest today, no checking of people's appointment times when joining the queue.

What time was that at, I had mine at city west today around 11am and from leaving car to getting back to car was no more then 25 mins, seemed to be loads there but everything moving very fast, do they not spread the vaccinations out equally through out the day

Ted_YNWA

Appointment for me in the portal, no text received.

Age: 38
Registered: 20 June
Appointment: 7 July
Vaccine: Pfizer -1st dose
Venue: Enniscorthy

Chiorino

Age: 40
Registered: 6 June
Text: 5 July
Appointment: 11 July
Vaccine: Moderna, 1st dose
Venue: Citywest

Rang the helpline today and was escalated. Text came through around 5pm. Definately looks like a load of 40 yo's being funnelled through citywest this Sunday.

tscul32

Age 44
First dose of Pfizer in 8th June. Tomorrow is 4 weeks, no word yet on second dose.
Helix vaccination centre.

Stark

90 min queue at Citywest today, no checking of people's appointment times when joining the queue.

PhilOssophy

Frank Grimes wrote: »

I was around 45 minutes early for mine last week and it wasn't an issue, I did ask first before queuing. When it got to the point of checking the texts the person checking was only interested in the date (definitely) and the venue (if I remember correctly, wasn't the time anyway).

That's why people are ending up queuing for 2 hours because people don't turn up at their scheduled time.

Greyfox

Was expecting to be waiting longer looking at the last few posts but got my app today

Age: 40
Registered: 22 June
Text: 5 July
Appointment: 11 July
Vaccine: Moderna, 1st dose
Venue: Citywest