Updated: 27 October 2009

Community News : October 2009

Swine Flu vaccination
NHS Hospitals will begin vaccinating frontline healthcare workers and their patients who fall into at risk categories against swine flu after 21st October. The vaccination programme will be rolled out over the next few weeks with GP surgeries receiving deliveries from Monday (26 October).

Around two million frontline health and social care workers will be offered the vaccine. This group is at increased risk of infection and of transmitting that infection to susceptible patients. Protecting these people will help the NHS workforce to remain resilient and able to treat sick patients.

The following at risk groups will be prioritised in the following order (numbers given are approximate and are for England only):

1. People aged over six months and under 65 years in current seasonal flu vaccine clinical at risk groups (about 5 million people)
2. all pregnant women (about 0.5 million people)
3. household contacts of people with compromised immune systems eg people in regular close contact with patients on treatment for cancer (about 0.5 million people)
4. people aged 65 and over in the current seasonal flu vaccine clinical at risk groups (about 3.5 million people). This does not include otherwise healthy over 65s, since they appear to have some natural immunity to the virus.

Patients will be contacted by their GPs if they fall into one of the at risk categories

Footpath closure
Notice of temporary closure of footpath from 9th November 2009 for 6 months, or until the work is completed.  It is anticipated that the work will commence on or after 9th November and will take twenty one days to complete.
 
The footpath from London Road to St Michaels Rd (near to Moatfield Surgery and to access Moat Road) will be closed to all pedestrians whilst the boundary wall to the new Aldi store is built.
 
Any queries to Ian Timms, DSP Construction Management Ltd, tel: 01474 573383

Sackville School on YouTube
Following on from the PeaceOneDay, celebrating peaceful acts and a day of global ceasefire, the video produced by the students has been submitted to YouTube, and has been selected as one of the top three.

Join the Councl
West Hoathly is in need of a new parish councillor – further details from Helen Schofield on 01342 811301

On the Move
Ashurstwood Parish Council  is having a temporary change of office whilst work is carried out on St Dunatans Church.  Contact details remain the same  01342 823700 or e-mail clerk@ashurstwoodparishcouncil.gov.uk

Minor Injury ?
If  you live or work in the East Grinstead area please consider using QVH’s Minor Injury Unit rather than A&E departments further away.  The MIU is open  every day from 8am – 10pm, for:

Sprains and simple fractures
Injuries to hands and feet
Wounds, burns and scalds
Foreign bodies in eyes, ears and nose
Bites and splinters
Back and neck pain
Mild to moderate asthma
Muscular injuries
Infections such as skin, ear, nose, throat and chest infections

Local signs to the hospital and MIU have recently been improved to make it easier for people around the region to find the hospital.

If you are involved in a major accident please go to an A&E department at Redhill or Haywards Heath

Village Civic Awards
Nominations for the Turners Hill village civic awards are being collected now.  Please make sure that nominations reach the Parish Clerk, Karen Bolt, by the end of October at the parish office at the Ark,  Turners Hill.

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