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Essential Unity Printing maintenance: Today from 10:30pm to Tuesday 28 November at 12.30am

November 27, 2023

Please be aware essential Unity maintenance will be taking place on today to ensure the supporting infrastructure remains secure and security compliant. The work is scheduled to begin at 10.30pm for approximately two hours and should be completed by 12.30am on Tuesday 28 November.

During this time Unity will remain fully available; however, from 10:30pm on today until around midnight Unity printing will be unavailable for up to 1.5 hours at the following community site locations:

Rowley Regis Hospital – McCarthy Ward, Westwood Ward, Phlebotomy, Pharmacy, Outpatients, Henderson, Archer Ward, Day Unit        

Aston Pride – Midwifery          

Lyng – Sexual Health, Phlebotomy, Heart Failure Nurses               

Victoria Health Centre – Phlebotomy               

Leasowes – all areas          

Soho Health Centre – Phlebotomy             

Tower Hill Medical Practice – Phlebotomy               

Summerfield Primary Care Centre – Phlebotomy                               

Attwood Green Health Centre – Outpatients               

Neptune Health Park – Outpatients, Phlebotomy               

Oldbury Health Centre – Phlebotomy

o    This will affect specimen label, requisition and pharmacy printing.

o    Any print jobs submitted during this time will be held and printed once the print servers come back online.

If clinical staff are due to collect a sample between these time above, we would advise them to wait until specimen labelling functionality returns. If staff have a very urgent specimen to collect that cannot wait to collect and send to pathology, then a manual pathology request form will need to be completed and sent with the sample. It is envisaged that this requirement will be extremely rare and unlikely at those times. 

The activity will be closely monitored by our IT support teams.

As always, should you have any further queries then please do contact the IT Service Desk on ext. 4050 or 0121 507 4050 or via Chat with the IT Service Desk