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ISSUE 13 19 SEPTEMBER 2012
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New milestones for battling Lexie EVERY FORTNIGHT LITTLE Lexie Fordyce has met the new school friends that she hopes one day to run in the playground with. The battling four-year-old has started school at Oakley Vale Primary as her family awaits news of the revolutionary operation in America that they hope will allow her to walk. They have raised almost £50,000 to send her to St Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri for the surgery and last week applied for a date for it to take place. But, as the Corby youngster begins her school life, the fundraising continues – with more cash needed for the intensive physiotherapy she will need after
her American trip. Lexie, who lives with her mum Lisa and big sister Kelsey, 13, suffers with quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which means she is currently unable to walk or stand unaided and her only way of getting about is by crawling. People across Corby and Northamptonshire have rallied to the call to back ‘Lexie’s Leggy Fund’. But £20,000 still needs to be raised for the appeal. As part of that drive, her granddad Ian has turned his 60th birthday bash into a fundraising event. Grampy’s Birthday Bash will take place at the Raven Hall in Corby on Friday October 26 and will feature Small Faces tribute band, Small Fakers.
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Have your say on ambulance shake-up Ambulance chiefs are calling on members of the public to give their views on a controversial shake-up of the service in Northamptonshire
They launched the ‘Being the Best’ consultation this week to get opinions about the plans, which could see stations in Corby, Wellingborough and Rushden axed. A major campaign has been launched to fight the blueprint, revealed this summer, with union leaders claiming it ‘potentially puts lives at risk’. The consultation process will include public meetings across the region and will last until December 17. East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) bosses say its proposals to replace stations with standby points in towns will speed up response times to 999 calls. Announcing the start of the consultation, Phil Milligan, East
Midlands Ambulance Service chief executive, said: “We are committed to being the best ambulance service we can be, and we know we need to fundamentally improve the way we work to achieve this. “These proposals have been developed with our clinical colleagues, and will ensure that we provide the best possible emergency and urgent care for all those living and working in the East Midlands. “The proposals focus on the way we deliver our services from stations and standby points. We must ensure that we spend our limited resources in making our frontline services that best they can be, rather than on updating old buildings that are not fit for the future.”
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Dr James Gray, East Midlands Ambulance Service medical director, said: “Our current buildings are in need of major repairs and refurbishment, with an estimated cost of £13million needed to put them right. “Fifty years after some of them were built, some are not in the best place to allow us to respond quickly nor are they based in the right places to achieve the most effective service. “Our emergency ambulance vehicles are our mobile emergency treatment centres. We don’t provide direct medical care at our stations. The more money we can spend on our vehicles and our frontline colleagues, the better.” Under the plan 131 Community Ambulance Posts, Standby Points
and ‘Super Station’ Hubs will be created across the East Midlands. Kettering station could be saved from the axe. When the shake-up was first revealed this summer, Unison regional organiser Corall Jenkins, who represents ambulance staff, told Extra: “These plans are potentially putting lives at risk.” She said: “999 calls will be attended by a hot response car. But if the patient has, say suffered a heart attack, they will need a crewed ambulance response.” Copies of the consultation document, which includes further information and maps outlining the proposals, are available online at: www.emas.nhs.uk by emailing: beingthebest@emas.nhs.uk and by calling: 0800 917 9911.
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