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Just been for another blood test at Kings.
Couldn't have it yesterday because Swiftqueue could not accommodate doing a test 12 hours after my medication.
Today - half the seats in the waiting room have been removed.
There is a sort of maître d'hôtel lady conducting the massive queue - and the guy in front of me can't handle the log in terminal - just keeps repeating his ineligible movements - had to fetch his wife/guardian.
I was in and out within 10 minutes - but I had pre-booked, something many "customers" seem unable or unwilling to do.
Under the old system it ran smoothly, all comers served in order maximum wait if very busy 30 minutes.
How much are Dedalus paid for this shit?
Please bear in mind "customers" here are NHS Hospital Trusts
The Swiftqueue platform is delivering tangible results and a rapid return on investment for customers, benefiting:
Patients by empowering them and giving them choice.
Clinicians by providing information, optimal work patterns, flexibility and improved patient communication.
Managers and Administrators by increasing capacity, reducing the administration burden on clinics and hospitals.
Couldn't have it yesterday because Swiftqueue could not accommodate doing a test 12 hours after my medication.
Today - half the seats in the waiting room have been removed.
There is a sort of maître d'hôtel lady conducting the massive queue - and the guy in front of me can't handle the log in terminal - just keeps repeating his ineligible movements - had to fetch his wife/guardian.
I was in and out within 10 minutes - but I had pre-booked, something many "customers" seem unable or unwilling to do.
Under the old system it ran smoothly, all comers served in order maximum wait if very busy 30 minutes.
How much are Dedalus paid for this shit?
Please bear in mind "customers" here are NHS Hospital Trusts
The Swiftqueue platform is delivering tangible results and a rapid return on investment for customers, benefiting:
Patients by empowering them and giving them choice.
Clinicians by providing information, optimal work patterns, flexibility and improved patient communication.
Managers and Administrators by increasing capacity, reducing the administration burden on clinics and hospitals.
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
Maximum wait was never 30 minutes previously. I waited well over an hour on many occasions. The new system of pre booking works well for adults and when you have to get a paediatric blood test in the kids bit. The confusing thing is the implementation here and why they don't insist on pre booking with maybe holding aside X appointments for walk ins.
I do agree that the waiting room etc is an utter mess.
I do agree that the waiting room etc is an utter mess.
Residents are reporting back that seating has been placed to face the shops and beds left unplanted with signs to grow whatever you want, which was not in the original plans. The general consensus is left looking unfinished.
The projected costs for this project are coming to us as one million. I hope this is for other areas too!
Personally for a million I would rather see clean streets and less cutting of services to vulnerable families. To me Lambeth's priorities seem crazy.
What's wrong with seating facing the shops.
Pretty sure planting will be put in as in other areas but please do correct me if this isn't the case.
Personally I think it's really important that we reclaim space from cars that we've just let take over everywhere and great that the council is investing in this.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Do you know what the source of funding was? I'm guessing it was not all Lambeth?
Cost sounds about right - I have been looking at a perhaps larger but less intensive project and the architects reckon a scheme like that is in the 1-2million. There is not any immediately obvious Lambeth funding available beyond something like £5K pocket parks - which the residents don't want.
There are signs on the beds saying grow what you like.
Reclaiming space from cars is all well and good when you're not having care packages slashed and services cut. If it costs a million in this context, now is not the time.
The seating is facing into shops instead of at the reclaimed road. I think away from the planters
.No, I hope it's not Lambeth because contextually that would be ludicrous.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Looks great. What's not evident is how long improvements like these take. It's months of work as the whole road has to be dug up.
Yeah - I've seen these but they don't say that's the only planting.
Surely a very separate thing - lots of things you could point to that we shouldn't spend money when there are other priorities.
Why should benches face the road? Really don't get your point here.The seating is facing into shops instead of at the reclaimed road. I think away from the planters
I haven't followed what's happening closely but reports are that the benches are facing away from the nice newness. Why should they face into shops instead of the world going by? People living down there are saying it's strange.
Nothing in the planning about residents having to plant.
At a time where the local authority is on the brink of bankruptcy, you have to prioritise. Vulnerable people always first, one million is a lot of money.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Without knowing any of the specifics here (and other than occupying the bit of virtual brixton that's urban, not being a local), local authority funding isn't always simple.
at the risk of stating the obvious,
much funding comes from central government, but it's divided strictly in to 'capital' spending - as in a one off project to build / do something and 'revenue' spending - as in ongoing funding of a service.
capital spending is mostly funded by borrowing at central or local government level, revenue spending is supposed to be met out of ongoing national / local taxes / rates. putting 'capital' money in to 'revenue' spending is not allowed.
that is why it is difficult for councils to spend money on maintaining existing buildings etc and easier to wait until they are so knackered that they can do a 'capital' project for major refurbishment or demolish and start again.
having said that, there can be a political angle - doing a major refurbishment / building something new generates a nice photo opportunity for the politicians at national or local level, ongoing maintenance behind the scenes doesn't.
some central government funding is from specific government funding streams, which increasingly (and time / resource consumingly) has to be bid for by councils against each other. if (for example) there's a government fund to mend pot holes in roads, that money has to be spent on mending pot holes in roads, the council can't use that funding to fund bus services instead.
and then there's some funding as part of agreements with developers, which again has to be spent on what's in the agreement not put in to the council's general fund.
yes it is bollocks and can all end up costing more in the long run, and i agree that it seems questionable when money is being spent on a capital scheme while revenue funding is being cut, but it's not always down to councils.
at the risk of stating the obvious,
much funding comes from central government, but it's divided strictly in to 'capital' spending - as in a one off project to build / do something and 'revenue' spending - as in ongoing funding of a service.
capital spending is mostly funded by borrowing at central or local government level, revenue spending is supposed to be met out of ongoing national / local taxes / rates. putting 'capital' money in to 'revenue' spending is not allowed.
that is why it is difficult for councils to spend money on maintaining existing buildings etc and easier to wait until they are so knackered that they can do a 'capital' project for major refurbishment or demolish and start again.
having said that, there can be a political angle - doing a major refurbishment / building something new generates a nice photo opportunity for the politicians at national or local level, ongoing maintenance behind the scenes doesn't.
some central government funding is from specific government funding streams, which increasingly (and time / resource consumingly) has to be bid for by councils against each other. if (for example) there's a government fund to mend pot holes in roads, that money has to be spent on mending pot holes in roads, the council can't use that funding to fund bus services instead.
and then there's some funding as part of agreements with developers, which again has to be spent on what's in the agreement not put in to the council's general fund.
yes it is bollocks and can all end up costing more in the long run, and i agree that it seems questionable when money is being spent on a capital scheme while revenue funding is being cut, but it's not always down to councils.
Not sure they're having to - it's giving the opportunity to people which some might welcome.
Well let's hope it's going to be monitored and maintained as it's taken the residents by surprise who were expecting a finished job.
It's not at all transparent. People have got figures but they don't know where the funding is coming from.
When they want a co-op council/residents mucking in, then we're all in it together.
But residents want more transparency especially as they see services being cut and life generally getting harder.
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