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Essential network maintenance and cable tidying at City Hospital during February and March

February 26, 2021

Please be aware throughout the remainder of February and March, IT will be carrying out essential network maintenance at City Hospital.  This is to ensure that all the network switch cabinets at City are clean, secure and follow an agreed cabling regime. This will help to improve resolution times in the event of a network outage. It will also help to prevent network downtime caused by accidentally removing the wrong cable or breaking a connection as a result of poor and untidy cabling.

During the works an approximate 30 seconds loss of wired network connection and up to 5 minutes loss of Wi-Fi access will be experienced for each connection that requires replacing. Please be assured once the activity has taken place it will be closely monitored to ensure all services are fully available.

During the maintenance both IT and our supporting vendor Midland Networks will be present, we envisage this will take around half a day for each cabinet location during the hours of 9am to 6pm. IT will work closely with all Department and Ward leads that are serviced by the affected cabinets. This will ensure colleagues are informed in advance before the works take place allowing sufficient time for work to be saved.

Detailed below is the proposed rollout schedule which may be subject to change:

  • Friday 26 February 2021 Cab 29 City Hearing Services Centre
  • Friday 26 February 2021 Cab 19 City Ward D18
  • Monday 1 March 2021 Cab 22 City Child Care & Assessment Unit
  • Tuesday 2 March 2021 Cab 35 City Ophthalmic Ward – Sheldon Block
  • Tuesday 2 March 2021 Cab 42 City Maternity Department
  • Wednesday 3 March 2021 Cab 41 Pathology Department
  • Thursday 4 March 2021 Cab 45 City Nuclear Medicine
  • Thursday 4 March 2021 Cab 43 City Labour Ward
  • Friday 5 March 2021 Cab 44 City X – Ray – Main Department
  • Monday 8 March 2021 Cab 49 City A.M.U.1
  • Monday 8 March 2021 Cab 50 City Toxicology
  • Tuesday 9 March 2021 Cab 52 City Pathology – Computer Room
  • Tuesday 9 March 2021 Cab 53 City Pathology – Clinical Chemistry
  • Wednesday 10 March 2021 Cab 62 City Maternity
  • Wednesday 10 March 2021 Cab 63 City Rheumatology
  • Thursday 11 March 2021 Cab 57 City Telephone Exchange
  • Friday 12 March 2021 Cab 64 City Maternity
  • Monday 15 March 2021 Cab 65 City Fracture
  • Monday 15 March 2021 Cab 71 City Neo Natal Unit
  • Monday 15 March 2021 Cab 73 City Neo Natal Portakabin
  • Tuesday 16 March 2021 Cab 76 City Histology (Old Ward D10)
  • Wednesday 17 March 2021 Cab 23 City Geriatric Administration (DGM)
  • Thursday 18 March, Friday 19 March and Monday 22 March Cab 58 City BTC
  • Tuesday 23 March to Thursday 25 March 2021 Cab 59 City BTC

 As always, should you have any queries or experience any issues during or after the maintenance then please do contact the 24 hour IT Service Desk on ext. 4050 or 0121 507 4050 for home workers.