Closing down everywhere I go
Well I seem to be becoming a Vaccine Centre closure specialist. First QMU drive through and now the EICC mass vaccination centre. After four months at QMU it was closed down in early June. And now after what will be a further three months at the EICC it too is now scheduled to close on Sun 19 th Sep. As of this moment I do not yet know where I will end up. We have been told that all of the current Edinburgh Health Centre sites will continue and perhaps expand and a number of new smaller sites will open across the city. There will also be opportunities in centres throughout the rest of Lothian. We have been told that NHS Lothian are keen to retain all of their current staff, offering substantive posts to any who are eligible and want them, and offering extensions from the end of Oct 2021 to the end of Mar 2022 to those of us who wish to remain temporary and will happily stop when the need for vaccine delivery can be met from within existing staff resources. It seems unfortunat...