EICC and Surge Clinics
Well it’s been a wee while since I last updated folks but as I have had a couple of weeks annual leave I have only undertaken two shifts since the closure of the QMU site. My first shift was an 8 hour Saturday shift at EICC which was quietly steady but not really that busy. Quite a good way to begin to get to grips with the different processes and systems in place. There were a number of colleagues there from QMU as well as a few from my earlier life in health visiting in Edinburgh. It was a perfectly reasonable place to work even if the passing of the day in the outside world was completely invisible. The following day a small number of us were asked to staff a drop-in surge clinic in the south of the city, set up in a GP surgery at short notice to facilitate access for local people over the age of 40 to their first or second vaccine dose. Unfortunately I’m not sure how well it was advertised in advance as the only way we managed to drum up any business at all was to head across ...