Back to Practice with Covid-19

So my new location is in Leith at the Community Treatment Centre. The staff are lovely, friendly and very efficient and effective. The clinic is very busy, indeed it is the busiest vaccine centre in Edinburgh city. However the setup and communication has not been so good. The centre has only three vaccination stations with admin and volunteer support to register and guide patients. Unfortunately, as our opening hours have been increased, rightly, to cope with demand, the admin and volunteer support has not always followed. This has made the end of the day problematic and chaotic at times. It is also not always clear who is in charge on any given day or shift which, with many of the staff being very experienced and self starting professionals, is not much of an issue but could become one if we have a problem to deal with that is not readily or easily resolved. There are also communication issues about what vaccines should be delivered to which groups. This has changed from time t...

Well, somewhat as expected, it took some time to establish and confirm my new location. On my very final Friday shift at the EICC I was told that I had been reallocated to Leith Community Treatment Centre (CTC) which is excellent news as it was my first choice location and is very local for me. However that allocation was not due to start until more than a week later and I was asked if I would take paid leave the following week. I asked if there were any locations that I could go to instead for a couple of shifts and they offered me two shifts on the vaccine bus on a student campus. The first bus shift proceeded fairly uneventfully but the second one almost failed to get started. For the second bus shift all of the vaccinators, the admin support and the bus arrived on time but there were no staff to unload the bus and assemble the site (tables, chairs, bins, substantial marquee, weights, sandbags etc) and no sign of any laptops, sharps bins and perhaps most crucially, any vaccines. ...