DO NOT go to your GP
DO NOT go to your local hospital
DO NOT go to your local pharmacist or shops
DO call 111
DO stay indoors
DO let your close relatives or friends know
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Experts say air pollution from exhaust fumes kills more than twice as many people as road accidents in Britain. More than 5,000 people die prematurely from conditions like lung cancer and heart disease because of emissions, those who die from air pollution tend to die about 10 years earlier than they would normally.
From 23rd March Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council is introducing £20 fines for motorists who idle in a bid to tackle air pollution. The council says the fines will only be issued when drivers refuse to switch off their engine.
The fines will be handed out by local civil enforcement officers, community safety patrol officers and environmental officers.
The initiative is part of the Broughs ‘Clean Air Campaign’ encouraging residents to be proactive in reducing their carbon emissions. The Council is aiming make the borough carbon neutral by 2030, after declaring a ‘Climate Emergency’ in July last year.
The reception area at Hackwood Partnership’s Essex House branch is closed as a “precaution” as a patient is believed to have attended with symptoms of the Coronavirus. The surgery is part of the New Acorn practice which consists of Gilles, St Andres and Essex Road surgeries.
Please remember to dial 111 and DO NOT attend your GP – say Cllr. Kim Taylor
The Gillies and Overbridge Medical Partnership, Brighton Hill, which is run by the Acorn Health Partnership following the merger of three GP surgeries, has been inspected by the Quality Care Commission who have issued it with a ‘requires improvement’ rating. During the visit, inspectors found the patient safety was being put at risk.
At the time of the merger resident told me how they were were unhappy and had immediately noticed problems getting appointments and confusion over which surgeries to attend. A year on and the situation is even worse. when we are out and about in the ward and in our Councillor Surgeries you tell us that waiting for 5 or 6 weeks for an appointment and even three weeks for a telephone appointment is the becoming the norm.
You usually tell me that getting through on the phone is a “nightmare”
Your Labour Councillors are working hard to put the Care Commissioning Group under pressure to improve the performance of GP’s in Basingstoke. At the moment they don’t even monitor waiting times for appointments or getting through on the phone.
There is now a special task group looking at the situation to see what might be done. You can my speech in the Council Chamber here https://brightonhill.online/bhtv/
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Councillor Brighton Hill
This winter I reported the mayhem over the flu jab. Patients were waiting in queues even the frail , elderly and disabled only to be turned away due to lack of supplies. We asked why are you texting people to come for a flue jab if you don’t have the stock?
Like me you have had a letter from your GP practice to tell us about a proposed merger between the Gillies, Camrose and Hackwood surgeries.
I understand that GPs Surgeries are finding it difficult to cope as the demands on them increase but is merging three hard pushed surgeries in to one supersized partnership looking after a massive 44,500 people really the answer?
The letter indicates cost savings would be made, but not exactly how appointment waiting times will be reduced. It’s difficult to see how the proposed merger will improve patient services and respond to future needs.
Most of us wait several weeks for a routine Doctors appointment, and I am not confident that the proposals outline will do anything to solve that.
Presumably the cost savings in mentioned in the letter will include rationalising reception, telephone and administration services.
How much harder will it be to get through on the phone for an appointment when the phone system will have three times the number of people trying to get through.
I share the concerns of many that only having one practice offering a “Duty Doctor Clinic” means that anyone needing an urgent appointment will have to go to the Camrose surgery in South Ham no matter where they live.
I am also concerned about the legal status of the new partnership and whether this is further privatisation of the NHS through the backdoor.
This is the sort of question you have been asking me during our conversations on the doorstep.
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