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title: Enabling joint bookings for up to 2 people
title: Exploring joint bookings for up to 2 people
date: 2025-03-03
tags:
- appointments
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### Slot selection

Most users found selecting appointment slots straightforward.​ One participant expected to be able to book appointments at different times, and wanted more flexibility.

## Next steps

After testing the joint bookings design during user research, we've added it to the joint roadmap for the National Booking Service (NBS) and the Manage Your Appointments (MYA) Service.

We aim to deliver joint bookings in stages starting during autumn-winter 2025 in this order:
- single cohort joint bookings (on RSV only, during autumn/winter 2025)
- multi-cohort joint bookings (on COVID, during spring 2026)
- joint bookings with co-admin (by autumn/winter 2026)
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title: "Allowing users to check their booking details"
date: 2025-06-17
tags:
- appointments
- continuous improvement
---

We found during research that some users find the end of the booking journey a little sudden.
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title: Enabling users to book for other people
date: 2025-06-30
tags:
- appointments
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For the autumn/winter 2025 campaign, the team was asked to include flu vaccinations for 2 and 3 year olds.
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title: "Making date selection more flexible "
date: 2025-10-02
tags:
- appointments
- continuous improvement
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Our analytics on the National Booking Service (NBS) showed that 25% of users were clicking ‘show later dates’ when trying to find a suitable date for their appointment in NBS.
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title: "Improving the contact details screen"
date: 2025-11-03
tags:
- appointments
- accessibility
---

The feedback from an accessibility audit on the National Booking Service (NBS) told us the way we collect contact details on NBS was not very accessible.
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title: Getting ready for the Autumn-winter 2025-26 campaign
date: 2025-11-26
tags:
- appointments
- continuous improvement
---

As part of our preparation for the Autumn-winter 2025 flu and COVID campaigns, we’ve added some new features and made some improvements to the Book a vaccination journey.

The improvements and changes we’ve made include:
- changing from co-administration to single vaccination
- campaign opening content
- a link on our confirmation page, for users to return to the start of the journey

## Changing from co-administration to single vaccination

When booking a vaccination appointment, users can choose to get their flu and COVID vaccines in the same appointment (co-admin).

Co-admin availability can sometimes be limited, so to give users more flexibility, we added the option to switch from co-admin to single jab at a couple of key points in the booking journey

### Site selection screen

![screenshot of a page showing a list of sites offering co-admin. Inset text near the top shows that a co-admin appointment has been chosen, and shows a link to switch to a single vaccine appointment](site-list-switching.png)

We show the switching option on the site list page. If users find co-admin offerings near them are limited, they can switch to a single vaccine appointment and hopefully find a more suitable site near them.

### Date choice screen

![Screenshot of a page showing a list of dates. Inset text near the top shows that a co-admin appointment has been chosen, and shows a link to switch to a single vaccine appointment](date-list-switching.png)

We also show the switching option on the date selection page. This allows users to switch back to single vaccine appointments if co-admin availability is low at the site they’ve chosen.

## Campaign opening content

For the autumn-winter 2025 campaign, we opened the online booking journey on 1 September 2025. However appointments were only available from 1 October 2025. We wrote some content for certain screens to help users understand why they could not book a date before 1 October.

### Start page

We used a warning callout on the service start pages for Flu and COVID-19.

![start page screenshot showing warning callout with campaign opening content](start-page-campaignopen.png)

### Date list page

We used inset text on the date selection page.

![date selection page screenshot with campaign opening content in inset text](date-list-campaignopen.png)

## Return to start link

We’ve previously had feedback from users that they would like to be able to make bookings for more than 1 person at a time. We plan to implement joint bookings, but this won’t be until later in the campaign. To help users who need to book for more than 1 person, we added a link to our confirmation page, to allow users to return to the start of the journey.

![screenshot of booking confirmation page, with action link to return users to the start of the journey, to make another booking, or manage an existing booking](confirmation-return-link.png)
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