Easy to miss that, but great to see over 2.4 million already. Thank you for linking
Yeah, I keep hearing different numbers being mentioned (think some people are adding first and second doses together). Great news that 400k of those have even had a second dose. Fingers crossed with those new hubs up and running daily dose numbers will continue to increase (subject to batch checked stock I’d imagine)
My grandmother who is 86 next month hasn’t had an invite yet as far as I know, not sure why. But the national picture obviously looking good
If they can maintain the current level, which will be an issue of supply as the infrastructure is now in place, we could hit the governments 2m a week which I was very sceptical of. The other issue will be maintaining the level of 1st dose vaccinations when they hit the point at which they have to start giving 2nd doses.Would love to hear regular vaccination statistics to keep the light at the end of the tunnel in sight.
If they can maintain the current level, which will be an issue of supply as the infrastructure is now in place, we could hit the governments 2m a week which I was very sceptical of. The other issue will be maintaining the level of 1st dose vaccinations when they hit the point at which they have to start giving 2nd doses.
Dads finally got his appointment. not until next Thursday but at least its in the diary now. Hopefully my Mums won't be too far behind, she's a bit further down the priority list.
I’m hopeful that as capacity increases they can divert a fair portion of it to giving out the second dose so we can maintain the first. Would be incredible if we can do 2m first and 2m second a week.If they can maintain the current level, which will be an issue of supply as the infrastructure is now in place, we could hit the governments 2m a week which I was very sceptical of. The other issue will be maintaining the level of 1st dose vaccinations when they hit the point at which they have to start giving 2nd doses.
Dads finally got his appointment. not until next Thursday but at least its in the diary now. Hopefully my Mums won't be too far behind, she's a bit further down the priority list.
Sat watching the missus do her online training to become a vaccinator.
One of the questions is along the lines of “who does the health department seek advice from for vaccination policy” followed by a bunch of random govt departments.
Why is this needed? Why are we putting this barrier in front of people who want to give the vaccine? What purpose does it serve? And this is the COVID vaccine specific stuff.
Sat watching the missus do her online training to become a vaccinator.
One of the questions is along the lines of “who does the health department seek advice from for vaccination policy” followed by a bunch of random govt departments.
Why is this needed? Why are we putting this barrier in front of people who want to give the vaccine? What purpose does it serve? And this is the COVID vaccine specific stuff.
Sat watching the missus do her online training to become a vaccinator.
One of the questions is along the lines of “who does the health department seek advice from for vaccination policy” followed by a bunch of random govt departments.
Why is this needed? Why are we putting this barrier in front of people who want to give the vaccine? What purpose does it serve? And this is the COVID vaccine specific stuff.
I think the number of different agencies and bodies are all ultimately to provide a shield to ministers from genuine accountability, e.g. Hancock blaming Public Health England for the lack of testing early on in the pandemic.
Fine. But why does anyone giving the vaccine need to know this. As in is tested on it and must get a right answer before they are allowed to deliver the vaccine?
We seem to be a stickler for rules in all the wrong places.
Father in law got his first jab just under 3 weeks ago. A week later he got told it was going to be weeks until he got the second one. A couple of days ago he got contacted again to be told it is happening today.Yeah, I keep hearing different numbers being mentioned (think some people are adding first and second doses together). Great news that 400k of those have even had a second dose. Fingers crossed with those new hubs up and running daily dose numbers will continue to increase (subject to batch checked stock I’d imagine)
I hear that George Elliott is really struggling so have reached out to the Uni’s to see if there are any of their students on their healthcare courses who would be happy to put themselves forward to volunteer on the bank.
Not just medical or nursing students either, this includes physio, dietetics, social work, biomed etc.
Also looks like Cov Uni is going to be continuing online up until Easter as well (exempt courses apart).
Everything is about blame. So everyone covers their arse.
Not knocking public sector in general (especially not front line across the board who’s all stepped up) but this just smacks of the crazy bureaucratic stuff their senior management want covering off and see as essential these days (large multi nationals will be the same). This is a crisis FFS, cut the crap out and get on with it*
*saying that on the back of the roll out starting really well, but how much of that is because people will go above and beyond to help out, even when these ridiculous hurdles are put in their way ?! Same with testing in the early days.. a lack of willingness to accept assistance from unis/private labs and focus on keeping it centralised...which got there eventually but building those super hubs/labs was always going to take time
ps thats not defending stuff like some of the private sector mess of tracing !
On the other hand Steve I saw the articles about food hampers say that a private company ‘had a responsibility to keep children fed’. Utterly bizarre for the government to delegate something like that to a private entity
Half the issue has been we haven't used or developed the public systems already in place.
Oh, as for recruitment, I'd rather they didn't cut corners and it took longer. You start cutting in a seemingly meaningless area, where else do you?
There were stories during the last census of people falling their checks *after* they'd started. Don't want similar...
Got to love hearing the news when they sound so shocked that people are standing in line at Costa or taking the piss at supermarkets.
Why don't they have any common sense? Went through coundon yesterday and all the shops are open, even the discount store and florist.
But, again, who wants a racist responsible for vaccinating people? What's irrelevant to one, isn't to another. In theory, if you're already employed by the NHS, you wouldn't have to do them again anyway... unless recruitment has been outsourced to somebody like Crapita, anyway. They're mostly things you can dash off, anyway. You could argue if somebody doesn't have the patience to sit down and do an online module for an hour, they won't have the patience to vaccinate thousands of people, day after day after day, after day...It’s a fine balance though NW, nobody would want to cut corners...especially when deployment of vaccines/medicines is involved but as discussed last week there appeared to be a load of irrelevant training modules/forms involved in signing up. Tailor it/streamline it and make it applicable/relevant to the specific role you’ll be undertaking. That’s all
Its listed as a 352 bed hospital. Although interesting to note that older listings from a few years back show 440 beds so seems there has been a cut. There's a Telegraph article from April saying critical care capacity is being increased and can go up as high as 42 beds.It’s hard to know the capacity, but I’d have thought they have more than 73 beds and 7 ventilators?
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So by keeping hospital staff healthy (vaccine), GE is actually no where near capacity.Its listed as a 352 bed hospital. Although interesting to note that older listings from a few years back show 440 beds so seems there has been a cut. There's a Telegraph article from April saying critical care capacity is being increased and can go up as high as 42 beds.
If there's an issue its more likley to be staff shortages due to number of people off sick.
But, again, who wants a racist responsible for vaccinating people? What's irrelevant to one, isn't to another. In theory, if you're already employed by the NHS, you wouldn't have to do them again anyway... unless recruitment has been outsourced to somebody like Crapita, anyway. They're mostly things you can dash off, anyway. You could argue if somebody doesn't have the patience to sit down and do an online module for an hour, they won't have the patience to vaccinate thousands of people, day after day after day, after day...
You circumvent some procedures, the culture ends up you circumvent others. It's a slippery slope...
So by keeping hospital staff healthy (vaccine), GE is actually no where near capacity.
Its definitely not a nice task to decide who gets the vacccine first, but I think there would’ve been sense in anyone going into hospital either for treatment or work to be near the top of the list.
And if they decide to push minorities down the queue / coincidentally run out of vaccine at that point? It's an extreme example, but you have to cover it.If they do it safely and for everyone, get them in. I couldn’t care less about their views.
And if they decide to push minorities down the queue / coincidentally run out of vaccine at that point? It's an extreme example, but you have to cover it.
Or complain about having to do it, and insist that it's unecessary?Not to be a dick, but if I’m a white nationalise determined to train as a vaccinator to fulfil my evil plan of slightly delaying vaccination for minorities, I reckon I might be able to lie on the online quiz.
As BSB said, we have CRB checks already to weed out the deplorables.
Or complain about having to do it, and insist that it's unecessary?
Seen them? I've done some of themNot sure if you’ve seen these training modules
Because I'm a vegetarian?Why wouldn't you want to go to KFC?
You'd have got on great at the KFC I went to once, that had run out of chicken...Because I'm a vegetarian?
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