Also, our pathology department has a new managed equipment service and we're going live with new equipment on Sunday 6th...There are so many problems with this.
Like, why choose a Sunday to make all your changes so that you have like...3 hours of support once the systems are live to solve all your problems?
Why not do it on the Saturday like everyone suggested? So you have the entire Sunday to go "Hey shit, this isn't working out like we planned. We're backed up."
"It's a good job we did this on a day when we only have 4000 samples coming through the lab the next day, rather than on a Sunday when the next day there's 16000+ coming through."
But no...Sunday has been 'agreed' as the sensible option.
I should also note that NONE of the service users have yet been informed that basically there's going to be huge disruption to the diagnostic service that week.
Well, other than a vague message in the hospital bulletin that a change is coming. No defined dates.
But it's cool to let everyone know with only a week to go, right?
Plenty of time for people to plan shit out.
GPs haven't even had the slightest hint that everything will be going to shit in about a week and a half.