I give it til Wednesday at the latest before lots of people start getting really pissed off by the size of walk in queues, the website crashing, no bookings available before Jan and there being no lateral flows available cos the NHS have run out.
I agree. They announce that everyone should be offered it by Jan, and make ominous statements about cancer appointments being cancelled if we don’t do it. And say vaccinated contacts need to do an LFT every day.
And then say, oh sorry did you misunderstand? You’ll just be able to book it by the 31st of Jan, probably because that’s how long it will take us to get the website back up. And by the way, there are no LFTs left.
It was obvious yesterday it wasn’t achievable by the end of the month, why not give a big but still achievable target and honest statements about the potential effect of not getting it done.
He said there may be cancer appointments cancelled if this isn’t achieved. If what isn’t achieved exactly? If everyone isn’t booked for an appointment by 31st, even if their actual appointment isn’t until February? Just let it ominously hang there as a possibility and then blame us for not getting the boosters fast enough if it happens, while not actually defining “fast enough”.
Am I right in thinking they have no stated goal for a set number of booster vaccinations by a set date? That’s one way to avoid failing to meet a target.
Because the target to offer it to everyone by the end of Dec was met as soon as he said “everyone can now book or go to a walk in.” That surely constitutes the offer, so they can all pat themselves on the back now. Anyone not yet boosted, it’s on you, the government have offered it, they’ve done their part, why haven’t you done yours.
That was a bit of a rant sorry, looks like I don’t need until Wednesday to get pissed off.