johnnytv
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So if true, Iceland is opening literally metres from where Cool Trader has been for the past several years. Logic?
This is where the Triage service should come into play. They should determine if people need to actually be in A&E or not – if someone comes in with a very minor issue they should be told to go to the doctors with it at the next available appointment. This would massively reduce the waiting times.
I was in A&E with my brother last year, whilst there a member of staff came out to say that there were long waiting times and to get an up to date list of people waiting read out the current list – 2/3 of them had left and not notified a member of staff. It’s a fair assumption that a majority of these patients didn’t require emergency attention and the staff still thinking they’re waiting only holds things up further.
I know from my own experience how useless it can be with trying to get a doctors appointment too but this is made much worse by people making appointments and then not turning up (many departments in the hospital also have this happen to a high degree).
My suggestion would be a fine of say £20 if you miss an appointment without cancellation unless there is a genuine reason for doing so. If you don’t pay the fine, you can’t book another appointment or receive treatment. I don’t think that’s unfair and think it would again go a long way in improving things.
The fact is, at the moment for the above reasons and others it’s a shambles – 6 – 8hrs to wait is ridiculous, especially if it involves children. Major changes are needed to improve things to a reasonable level or it’ll just continue going downhill.
Being a commercial web developer, I’ve got no idea what on earth they’re supposed to be getting built that would cost anywhere near this much for what they’ve detailed as functionality (on the surface, I haven’t read the full 63 page PDF).
However, the best part is the naivety that the system will last 10 years – look at how much technology has changed in the past 5 years. I know there is an annual figure (£135k, also ludicrous) for licenses (so the council won’t own the system) and development but I doubt this would cover any considerable changes likely needed in the future as technology evolves.
I’m also confused by this line:
“Evidence suggests that households who do not shop or pay bills on line can lose on average £560 per year. With Wrexham’s total households amounting to 57,029* at the last Census in 2011 that means Wrexham residents are missing out on just under £32 million extra into the County Borough.Surely the savings listed are down to cheaper prices online for goods and discounts for paperless billing etc. If people don’t use the Internet to shop now (when there are obvious well-known advantages), why would the council having a better website make a current non-Internet user more likely to do so? Are they going to offer discounts on council tax or other bills for paying them through the site? If so is that taken into account when listing the costs/savings of the system?
Also this line:
The Council say “The new technology will provide a full range of on line services such as viewing your Council Tax account, reporting Streetscene issues or requesting a licence.If that’s the main focus of it, what benefit does that bring to the majority of Wrexham on a regular basis?
Having worked in the public sector previously and seen money wasted like no tomorrow due to management making decisions on matters they know nothing about, this all seems a bit too familiar. Why they couldn’t do a shared system across Wales and split the bill as suggested above I don’t know.
It’s like Wrexham CBC is striving to be the “first”, “biggest” or “best” at something in Wales but “competent” or “mediocre” would often be a big step up for them.
A couple of evenings ago the signs said Waterworld parking was full when it
was at least 75% empty.So based on my experience and the other comments on here, everyone who lives in Wrexham will soon come to the conclusion to ignore the signs regardless.
Another job well done!
Saw these in use last night, not sure if they’re to be updated to include figures but all they said were either “Spaces” or “Closed”.
Has it really cost over half a million for this?? In my experience there are spaces at all of the town centre car parks 99% of the time (Island Green probably being the only exception). Eagles Meadow is never completely full, even at Christmas. The increase in parking charges will only make spaces more freely available.
Where do they get these costing figures from?? The amount for King Street is ludicrous too – is it companies fleecing the council for as much as they can? If so are the decision makers that dense that they can’t see it happening?
Yeah where was the thought process of that? Especially when the retail park at the back of it has been half empty for the past couple of years! They’d be better off putting some greenery where they’re building the new shops and split PC World etc into several smaller sized units that could accommodate the wine warehouse and anywhere else.
All it will take is for Harveys or Dunelm Mill to leave their current site and it’ll be a wasteland.
Not surprised with Snob, was there around 3 months I think.
Caran D’ache next to Greggs has gone now too.
I attended a town centre forum meeting over 2 YEARS ago when the council said they were aware of the parking on the roundabout by the fountain and the problems it was causing and that measures were going to be put in place to stop it from happening.
Another job well done!
