Add post about new Home page for RAVS (#53)

Author: frankieroberto

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+title: "Adding a home page showing vaccination totals"
+date: 2025-02-21
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+Previously in the alpha we explored the concept of adding a dashboard to let users see key information about their vaccination programme.
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+Since then, we've learnt through research that 1 common user need is to be able to keep a log of the number of vaccinations given each day. 
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+Sometimes this is done through a paper tally sheet. Alternatively users have used the 'Report' function to download a spreadsheet of all the vaccinations given in particular time range, and then used the number of rows to get a count.
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+We wanted to make this easier, and to give all users a sense of how many vaccinations they have delivered.
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+## What we did
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+We designed a new 'Home' page which all users see when signing in.
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+![Screenshot of new home page](new-home-page.png)
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+The home page contains:
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+* total vaccinations given today (so far)
+* total vaccinations given in the past 7 days
+* total vaccinations given in the current calendar month
+* a breakdown of the vaccinations given in the past 7 days by vaccine type
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+Our initial designs showed a rolling total of the past 28 days, but we changed this to the current calendar month after learning that some users report data in this way.
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+We also explored adding a total for the current vaccination ‘campaign’, for example Autumn/Winter 2024 to 2025. But we dropped this as not all vaccinations are seasonal, and there is not always a clear definition of dates for a given campaign.
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+Our design also included a breakdown by site for users in trusts where there are multiple vaccination sites set up. This feature was de-scoped but could be added in future.
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+## Response
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+We did not do a full round of research on this design as we felt we had enough information from previous research.
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+Since going live, we have had some positive feedback and requests for further additions:
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+> Really liking the improved 'home' screen, it would be really useful it there was 8 days data on the front page, so I could compare Monday with Monday's figures from the previous week.
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+> Really liking the new summary report on the opening page. Would it be possible to offer another option of view by week for the month?