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Chase Farm Hospital - improvement works and outages
A series of work improvements and IT outages are taking place at our Chase Farm site. Please read them if you are based there and share with your teams:
Road closure and temporary parking plan – Shooters Hill Road
Starting Monday 24 February drainage installation work will require closing Shooters Hill Road to vehicles for two weeks. Pedestrian access will remain open. The closure is necessary due to tunneling work.
To minimise disruption, we plan to set up a temporary car park in the area currently used by Hunters Way residents and Wren's Academy. See image below for more information:
* Please share this information with your colleagues, staff, and visitors.
Cabling works
There will be upcoming works as part of phase 2 of the replacement of orange panel.
- Trenching: 19 February to 5 March – Digging trench from substation to Ivy House and Blue Nile (approximately for two weeks).
- Cable Installation: 5 to 7 March – Cable installation to be completed.
- Above ceilings internal works at Ivy House: 3 to 6 March – Four days of internal works, minimal impact to staff areas.
- Above ceilings Internal works at Blue Nile: 24 to 27 February – Four days of internal works, inimal impact to patient areas.
- Building shutdowns: One-day shutdown at each building (details to be confirmed) with arrangements for power or decant options.
The responsible team for doing the works will arrange meetings with each building's stakeholders to discuss and minimise disruptions. These works are essential health and safety measures that the Trust is required to carry out urgently and cannot be avoided.
These works may cause some disruption, and we apologise about that and we are working to minimise any impact.
Scheduled downtime for Chase Farm Hospital – Monday 24 February
There will be a scheduled downtime to our IT network across Chase Farm Hospital between 11pm on Monday 24 February and 6am on Tuesday 25 February.
As part of the downtime, there will be four outages each lasting up to 15 minutes. These will be intermittent outages and will not affect all services throughout the whole outage window (11pm-6am). Anything that requires internet connection including RiO, email, printing, SharePoint, desk phones, blood analyser system and Wi-Fi, will be affected. Laptop users with 4G can continue to work via 4G/LTE/Cellular. Staff can use mobile phones to cover telephony during the outage.
There will be a member of the Digital Team on each site during these times to ensure everything is running again as normal after the works to the network.
We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause but we expect the impact to staff to be minimal.
