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[Essexyellows]

Are all the NHS back office/managers who have never seen a patient in their life all getting their boosters ready for winter, as with the first shots? (I know this isn't you btw)

Yep, the "company policy" is that all staff get a booster although it is aimed at patient-facing first. 62% of our nursing staff are already boosted.
Mrs EYMkII went for hers yesterday and got her flu jab in the other arm - efficient and beneficial as we get more money if we hit the staff vaccination targets.
I`m in at 10.10am and will report back!

 

[Essexyellows]

New Zealands attempt to keep it out as an isolated set of islands with a tiny population seems to have floundered...

How New Zealand snookered itself by calling time on its Covid elimination strategy | Lew Stoddart

By granting freedom as case numbers rise, Jacinda Ardern has diverged from the nation’s understood strategy of aligning policy with expert consensus

www.theguardian.com

 

[Yellowmania]

Yep, the "company policy" is that all staff get a booster although it is aimed at patient-facing first. 62% of our nursing staff are already boosted.
Mrs EYMkII went for hers yesterday and got her flu jab in the other arm - efficient and beneficial as we get more money if we hit the staff vaccination targets.
I`m in at 10.10am and will report back!

I managed to get my flu jab when I popped into my local chemist last week, due to get my booster next month and having had bad side effects (inc hospital visit) from the first 2 AZ jabs then having two jabs sloshing around my system at the same time didn’t sound too appealing to me! All safe to get both together I know and I’ve also got to queue in some time a pneumonia jab now I’ve reached the lofty 65 barrier.

 

[QR]

Yep, the "company policy" is that all staff get a booster although it is aimed at patient-facing first. 62% of our nursing staff are already boosted.
Mrs EYMkII went for hers yesterday and got her flu jab in the other arm - efficient and beneficial as we get more money if we hit the staff vaccination targets.
I`m in at 10.10am and will report back!

Socialism in action. You've got to love it.

 

[greatunclekip]

Yep, the "company policy" is that all staff get a booster although it is aimed at patient-facing first. 62% of our nursing staff are already boosted.
Mrs EYMkII went for hers yesterday and got her flu jab in the other arm - efficient and beneficial as we get more money if we hit the staff vaccination targets.
I`m in at 10.10am and will report back!

How on earth can that be justified? If I was a teacher etc I'd be fuming. Understand leftovers etc going to nearest but no reason why Accounts Assistant WFH David Smith, 29, should be front of queue.

 

[Oxymoron]

If all the accounts department catch covid, how can the NHS buy anything?

(Disengage mischievous mode)........

 

[bashamwonderland]

If all the accounts department catch covid, how can the NHS buy anything?

(Disengage mischievous mode)........

I thought the NHS was all accountants and management consultants anyway - do they still do doctors and medicine?

 

[Marked Ox]

I managed to get my flu jab when I popped into my local chemist last week, due to get my booster next month and having had bad side effects (inc hospital visit) from the first 2 AZ jabs then having two jabs sloshing around my system at the same time didn’t sound too appealing to me! All safe to get both together I know and I’ve also got to queue in some time a pneumonia jab now I’ve reached the lofty 65 barrier.

You should have Pfizer as a booster if you've had AZ already. AZ should only be given if no alternative.

 

[Marked Ox]

I thought the NHS was all accountants and management consultants anyway - do they still do doctors and medicine?

I see enough of them on a weekly basis so yes.

 

[Essexyellows]

How on earth can that be justified? If I was a teacher etc I'd be fuming. Understand leftovers etc going to nearest but no reason why Accounts Assistant WFH David Smith, 29, should be front of queue.

We are both over 50 for starters. I work in Pathology & Clinical Trials and she is Head of Research Operations so if we aren`t at work.......
The booster programme is following the same path as the vaccination one and you have to have a suitable gap between last vaccine & booster.
I had my vaccine (single shot trial) in December 2020, MrsEYMkII was on the same trial but got placebo so received her Pfizer jabs fairly early on as well.
The outcome being we are both due our booster at the same time.

 

[Wandering Yellow]

We are both over 50 for starters. I work in Pathology & Clinical Trials and she is Head of Research Operations so if we aren`t at work.......
The booster programme is following the same path as the vaccination one and you have to have a suitable gap between last vaccine & booster.
I had my vaccine (single shot trial) in December 2020, MrsEYMkII was on the same trial but got placebo so received her Pfizer jabs fairly early on as well.
The outcome being we are both due our booster at the same time.

Not bad for a thick brexit voting Tory Essex!

 

[QR]

Not bad for a thick brexit voting Tory Essex!

The NHS is full of them. Didn't anyone tell you?!

 

[Essexyellows]

Not bad for a thick brexit voting Tory Essex!

If I put my full job title on here some folk would melt........

 

[m]

If I put my full job title on here some folk would melt........

You're not in charge of apostrophes are you?!

 

[Essexyellows]

You're not in charge of apostrophes are you?!

Work of the devil..... ``

 

[QR]

Work of the devil..... ``

That's one hell of a job title excusing the pun.

 

[Paul Cannell]

In my mind's eye I see @Essexyellows as Vincent Price in Witchfiner General.

 

[werthersoriginal]

In my mind's eye I see @Essexyellows as Vincent Price in Witchfiner General.

I was thinking more Gyles Brandreth?

 

[Paul Cannell]

'Bringing Stone Island to middle management'? More 'Introduced the ducking-stool to Human Resources', I'd say.

 

[Essexyellows]

'Bringing Stone Island to middle management'? More 'Introduced the ducking-stool to Human Resources', I'd say.

More Barbour these days, sorry.

Sauve & sophisticated all the same.