The Anchor

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The Anchor
The Anchor
The Barkantine Monthly Newsletter
Healthy
Living
Anchor’s Aweigh!
A
June 2013
…..we stay firm, no matter the storm
My Barkantine
Just A Day – Dawn’s story
ll aboard…and welcome to the
maiden voyage of the Barkantine’s
Newsletter. What a journey this will
They say: never say never. Dawn was told by her agency to come to the
Barkantine for just a day, she choose to stay on despite missing her way to
the surgery on her first day! Read her short story.
I will be 49 June 25th. I was sent to the Barkantine three years ago by an
agency to work one day only. I actually drop off at Herons Quay and had to
walk down here. Now look at me. I have become Reception Supervisor and
birthday
isnot June
25th
this
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reception
team. I was
going to turn
up as49
the surgery
year...I
was
sent
to
the
Barkantine
3
was so far away from home. So glad I did now. I am looking forward to the
years
ago
by
an
agency
to
work
1
day
BIG 5.0. next year and can’t wait to spend it with the guys here.
look
I have
become
From everybody only..Now
at The Barkantine:
‘Happy
Birthday
Dawn!’ reception
be!
The Anchor is simply here to act as a
bridge to help boost communication. Its
our local paper! Alfred Hart Miles once
wrote the lyrics to a song: Anchors Aweigh.
In it, were the words - Stand Navy down
the field, sails set to the sky. I humbly make
a slight change to Mr Miles’
words;
Just Words
Stand Barkantine down the field,
‘The only way to keep
sails set
your health is to eat
to the sky!
what you don’t want,
drink what you don’t like
We set sail for the sky…. Maybe
and
do what you’d rather
beyond.
not.’ – Mark Twain
Rotavirus In Town!
NHS England recently announced some
changes to the
Immunisations schedule. From
July 2013, rotavirus vaccination
will be included.
So, what is rotavirus? Rotavirus is the
most common cause of gastroenteritis in
infants and very young children. Almost every child will
have had an infection by the age of five.
There will be more updates on the vaccinations in mails
to you.
Stuart’s Corner
ear Team, welcome to the first edition of the
Anchor, our news letter and communications
sheet. As I write, I am sitting in the sun on the
south coast of France, looking across a beautiful bay of
deep blue sea and blue sky! (I am back now though).
There are lots of boats moored at anchor in the bay,
some small fishing boats, some huge luxury yachts, but all
of them using anchors to stop them drifting off in the wind
and tides, and getting grounded on the rocks or carried out
to sea. The name of the newsletter, The Anchor, I think is a
great name to help us communicate and be a steady ship
all working together and helping to keep us on course
through the challenges of Primary Care in a constantly
changing health environment, and reminding ourselves of
our statement of purpose. Let’s use it to support each
other and develop our servises for our
patients. Stay anchored!
D
TINY DROPS
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Our MMR Catchup programme is still on. Thanks for all the efforts so far.
We aim to have qualifying children between 10-16 years old vaccinated by
September.
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Mostafa Says….
Expectant mothers are still to be encouraged to get vaccinated against
whooping cough from week 28 of their pregnancy.
The Anchor
Is it time to sing a dirge for
our NHS? Is it all about the
money, money just like Jessie
J sang? What’s really
happening to our good old
NHS? GP registrar, Shailen
Sutaria (as John Connor in the
Terminator movies) takes a critical look at what can be
done to save the NHS.
R.I.P NHS!
1st April 2013 marked the insidious day that future
historians will recall as the beginning of the end for the
NHS! The NHS was born in 1948 and founded on three
basic principles: that it is universal (covered everyone), it
would be free at the point of delivery and decisions would
be made on clinical rationale and not on your ability to pay.
Before 1948, health care was dependent on your ability to
pay. The poor, unemployed and the elderly suffered the
most. The NHS has struggled for the past 65 years. Despite
this, it delivers! Various reports from WHO, OECD,
Commonwealth Fund, consistently ranks the NHS as one of
– if not the best – health care systems in the world; with
excellent care and best outcomes and best value for
money. So why are people trying to change it? The NHS
can always do with improvement and better funding – but
the current changes rip the heart out of the NHS. They
allow private companies to start picking away at the NHS,
fragmenting it and seeking profit over patient health and
care. Experiences from around the world has taught us that
when private companies enter, health worsens and cost go
up! The changes are ideological; they seek to make some
companies a lot of money.
Picking a Fight
How are they getting with it?
Health secretary,
Spin stories. Cherry picking
Jeremy Hunt, has
information to release to the public
denied ‘picking a
blaming problems on the NHS. A
fight’ with GPs over
smear campaign of exaggerated,
out of hours
half told and negative
provision. Speaking at
stories about the NHS –
the NHS
convincing the public that the
Confederation
NHS needs reforming.
conference in
Can we stop it?
Liverpool, he said his
Yeah! Join the resistance. Don’t
fight was with
believe the lies and tell your
structures preventing
GPs providing holistic
friends and families not to too.
patient care. He said
Its our NHS. Lets join hands and
he believed there is
save it!
Have you got a write up for us?
Email: gabriel.olumide @nhs.net
not a problem with
the quality of general
practice.
CommunityParentsWanted!
Community Parents Programme, the project we are
involved in, are still on the lookout for 1st time pregnant
mothers registered with us. The programme is all about
providing one to one support to mums and dads to be
through their trained volunteers. Rachel Redfearn,
project coordinator told The Anchor the programme is
starting at the Barkantine due to the surgery’s
uniqueness and list size. Consent forms for would be
mums are now loaded on emis web. The idea is to have
as many 1st time mums sign the form so Rachel and
team can contact to speak more about the project to
them. Please spread the word.
.
Reflections
Sometimes – A poem by SHIMU CHOWDHURY
Sometimes...I wish I could sit by the streaming river and
write a beautiful poem...
but I'm not a poet!
Sometimes I wish I could swim in the calm blue ocean....
but I can't swim!
Sometimes I wish I could ride a bike in a big open field
surrounded by beautiful mountains and lakes...
but I don't know how to ride a bike!
Sometimes I wish I could draw a picture of the place where I
can do all these...
But I'm not an artist!
Yet, I thank God for giving me the power to imagine, a mind
to think, a mouth to speak
and this hand to write...
to share with you all how I feel!!
GPs Seek Exit
Ps may have to give up working with the
new NHS organisations that control £65bn of
treatment budgets, to help their surgeries cope
with the sharply rising workloads, medical leaders are
warning.
A few GPs have already pulled out of involvement with
their local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) because
they could not spend enough time with patients while also
helping run the groups. The growing demand for GP
services is also making others consider withdrawing, even
though CCGs are meant to be GP-led. Dr Clare Gerada,
chair of the Royal College of GPs, said the difficulty of
reconciling patient care with new managerial duties in their
local CCGs meant it was "inevitable" some GPs would pull
out of the CCGs.
G
FACT
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of heart disease. Walk to stay healthy and young.