Nellie Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 (edited) Over 80 family member received their letter today. Six A4 pages of text!!. Rang the number specified, within 15 minutes. Got cut off. Rang again. No appointments available. It's a complete fucking fiasco. Edited January 15, 2021 by Nellie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Onchan Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Just now, Nellie said: Over 80 family member received their letter today. Rang the number specified, within 15 minutes. Got cut off. Rang again. No appointments available. It's a complete fucking fiasco. No appointments available? How is that possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nellie Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 3 minutes ago, Andy Onchan said: No appointments available? How is that possible? Who knows! One for Ashford to explain. You'd obviously expect the number of available slots and the number of letters sent, to be closely aligned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 11 minutes ago, Nellie said: Over 80 family member received their letter today. Six A4 pages of text!!. Rang the number specified, within 15 minutes. Got cut off. Rang again. No appointments available. It's a complete fucking fiasco. Are they using 111 for people to book appointments? From earlier stuff it looked like they intended to, but I would have thought that with the pressure on the number from the current outbreak and the increase in testing (it's about 250-300 a day), you would have though they would have set up a dedicated alternative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lxxx Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 They clearly need a very experienced and efficient programme manager from the private sector to run this. The logistics and scale are not compatible with a public sector obsessed with separate departments, power bases and apathy, along with a complete lack of experience in doing anything like this previously. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Onchan Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Lxxx said: They clearly need a very experienced and efficient programme manager from the private sector to run this. The logistics and scale are not compatible with a public sector obsessed with separate departments, power bases and apathy, along with a complete lack of experience in doing anything like this previously. A Project Manager with an MBE, even! ETA: thought I'd mention the MBE in case some out there didn't know the connection. Edited January 15, 2021 by Andy Onchan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nellie Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 8 minutes ago, Roger Mexico said: Are they using 111 for people to book appointments? From earlier stuff it looked like they intended to, but I would have thought that with the pressure on the number from the current outbreak and the increase in testing (it's about 250-300 a day), you would have though they would have set up a dedicated alternative. The letter requires you to ring 111 and then select option 2. Presumably that is a filter for vaccination appointment callers. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nellie Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 8 minutes ago, Lxxx said: They clearly need a very experienced and efficient programme manager from the private sector to run this. The logistics and scale are not compatible with a public sector obsessed with separate departments, power bases and apathy, along with a complete lack of experience in doing anything like this previously. You’ll never, ever find out who is actually in charge of this. It’d be pretty sure it’s being run by a committee or ad hoc group, with no focus on anything, except having loads of zoom meetings and generating reports, papers and minutes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxman34 Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 13 minutes ago, Lxxx said: They clearly need a very experienced and efficient programme manager from the private sector to run this. The logistics and scale are not compatible with a public sector obsessed with separate departments, power bases and apathy, along with a complete lack of experience in doing anything like this previously. Because the private sector have made such an outstanding success of involvement in the pandemic in the UK? Serco, et al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 30 minutes ago, manxman34 said: Because the private sector have made such an outstanding success of involvement in the pandemic in the UK? Serco, et al "World Beating" track and trace 🤔 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted January 15, 2021 Author Share Posted January 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Nellie said: Who knows! One for Ashford to explain. You'd obviously expect the number of available slots and the number of letters sent, to be closely aligned. Well if they’re only vaccinating 3 days per week the slots will fill up fairly quickly, but at least lots of government workers have been done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambon Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Banker said: Well Guernsey received c 8500 vaccine doses in week to 10 January and planning for 42500 total by end March, we must be receiving similar and if so where is it??! https://www.islandfm.com/news/guernsey-news/vaccine-rollout-continues-in-care-homes/ Jersey have done c5000 doses already and planning for 1000 per day from Monday so assume they are receiving supplies to do this why aren’t we? A while ago, when you wanted the borders flung open, you quoted that the average age of those whom had died of Covid was around 80. You also said that 90% of all deaths were in people over 70. Our current plan to give those people the maximum protection asap is perfectly correct. So the U.K. reckon they can get the first shot into all over 50s done by the end of March? Eleven weeks. Not going to happen! Edited January 15, 2021 by Cambon Wrong month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lxxx Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 1 hour ago, manxman34 said: Because the private sector have made such an outstanding success of involvement in the pandemic in the UK? Serco, et al You're comparing all the private sector to an inept example of cronyism? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 3 minutes ago, Cambon said: So the U.K. reckon they can get the first shot into all over 50s done by the end of May. Eleven weeks. Not going to happen! Thought it was by end of march 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Andy Onchan said: A Project Manager with an MBE, even! ETA: thought I'd mention the MBE in case some out there didn't know the connection. Don't mention managing a project to procure a Chewing Gum Removal Machine though... Edited January 15, 2021 by Non-Believer typo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.