Unfortunately that doesn't work in practice :)
My company has a customer base existing almost entirely of production facilities that run “24/7”. All of them have regular shut downs for service, maintenance. calibration, etc. All these companies use the same procedure, all over the world - they shut down whole production lines for 3 days for maintenance - because it is the only viable way to do it. Service engineers and maintenance staff are drafted in and work round the clock to perform all the necessary repairs, new installations etc in the shut down period. No product is processed at all during the shut down. This will not work with a hospital. You cannot empty a hospital of patients every two weeks or shut down an A&E for three days.
A hospital is more like a motorway - you have to do the repairs during times when there is less traffic, shutting one lane or one operating theatre and keeping the rest open. This is, I suspect, what happens at weekends in hospitals now. Managers/Doctors don't schedule standard operations such as hip replacements, knee surgey etc at weekends to reduce demand on the operating theatres, MRIs, beds, toilets, kitchens, X-ray equipment to allow for the essential maintenance to be performed. on a rolling basis.
I have yet to hear how all the “back room” work is going to be done when the hospital is running at full capacity every hour of the day, every day of the week. Hunt doesn't have a clue, of that I am sure and I don't even think he and his cronies have even given it a moments thought. It is going to be an unmitigated disaster.
