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Mask wearing

There has been a change to guidance which we must follow effective 1st July 2022. Please note that due to the rapidly rising rate of Covid infections locally patients MUST wear a face mask when attending the Surgery, even if this is just to collect a prescription from our Dispensary. Thank you for your understanding.

Flu vaccines and COVID Boosters Autumn/ Winter 2022

We are preparing now for the delivery of 2 mass vaccination programmes that will commence in September/October 2022 (Seasonal influenza and the COVID autumn booster). Seasonal influenza vaccination eligibility • Those aged 50 years and over • Those aged 5 years to under 49 years in clinical risk groups • All children aged 2 to 13 on 31 August 2021 (i.e. up to school Year 9) • Pregnant women • Those in long-stay residential care homes • Carers • Close contacts of immunocompromised individuals aged 5+ • Frontline healthcare workers, social care workers and care home workers For more information visit https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ vaccinations/flu-influenza-vaccine/

COVID-19 Autumn Booster vaccination eligibility

• Those aged 50 years and over • Those aged 5 years to under 49 years in clinical risk groups • Pregnant women • Those in long-stay residential care homes • Carers • Close contacts of immunocompromised individuals aged 5+ • Frontline healthcare workers, social care workers and care home workers. We will be in contact with official invitations.

You will receive either an SMS text message with a simple online booking option and/or an invitation letter.

Child Flu Clinics

We will also be contacting parents whose children are aged 2-3 or aged 4-17 and have a condition which puts them at greater risk if they get flu. Children in years R-7 will be vaccinated in school by Schools Health. Please wait until you get an invitation letter before contacting the surgery.

Welcome to out new GP trainees

ONLINE CLASSES & STUDIO SESSIONS

NOW LOCATED AT STATION MILL, ALRESFORD, SO24 9JQ

regularly host doctors who are undergoing their specialist GP training. Prior to starting the GP Specialist Training Programme a doctor will usually have worked in a number of different hospital departments gaining skills, knowledge and experience. The GP training programme takes 3 years and during the first two years of this a GP trainee will undertake placements in a number of different medical specialties including a six month placement in a GP surgery. The final year of the training programme takes place in a different practice where the trainee (or Registrar as they are known) will use the knowledge and experience they have already have to gain the particular skills of a GP. We are very pleased to introduce our new cohort of trainee GPs, Dr John Foreman, Dr Gabriella Bentley & Dr. Alice Maidwell-Smith.

Travelling abroad

Immunisations and advice are available through our Travel Service. Please collect a form from Reception, or follow the link on our website to complete the form online, and then make an appointment in our Travel Clinic. The form should be returned to the surgery prior to your appointment.

You will have a telephone appointment initially to discuss all your travel arrangements, then if required a follow up face to face appointment for the vaccinations. You should allow at least 8 weeks to enable vaccination courses to be completed.

There may be a charge for certain vaccines. For more information please visit our website; https://alresfordsurgery. co.uk/clinics-and-resources/

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Winchester Councillors Report

The Cost of Living

We are already seeing the effect of increases in the cost of almost everything, and this will not improve in the short term. Energy costs will increase dramatically as temperatures fall when we move into autumn. Poorer households can end up paying a huge percentage of their income on heating and lighting. (The definition of fuel poverty is when the household is spending more than 10% of their income on energy.) The number of such households is becoming larger.

There are people living in our towns and villages that will have to choose between eating and heating this year. Being in receipt of any benefit will open the doors to further support, so check if you are eligible, it doesn't take long and you may be happily surprised, https://www.gov.uk/benefitscalculators

We know that many of those that are hard up may not have access to online help. The Citizens Advice Bureau provide help and advice 0808 278 7861

Insulate Your Home

Grants for Fully funded home insulation are available. If your household income is less than 30k pa or you receive any means tested benefit, and you live in a house with an EPC rating E/F/G, please consider applying. Keeping warm is essential to your health. Older people’s physiology makes them less able to maintain their correct body temperature. Check your EPC rating at https://www.gov.uk/find-energy-certificate Check if you are eligible at https://www. warmerhomes.org.uk/eligibility

Public Loos, Inconvenient

Regrettably the Ladies Loos in the Alresford public toilets will be out of commission for some more weeks. Drains below the floor need to be taken up and replaced. This involves breaking into the tiled and concreted floor, neither a quick nor easy task.

We are also investing to improve the standards of the public toilets run by WCC, in both the short and long term. Discussions are going on with the external contractor, responsible for cleaning and minor maintenance in regard to the quality of their work. For longer term improvements, The British Association of Public Conveniences has completed an assessment of all eleven of the facilities belonging to WCC and will be providing a report very soon. The WCC Estates Team is commissioning full condition surveys of the buildings of all eleven facilities for underlying problems. These are located in the market towns as well as in the city. From these two studies an improvement programme and costs will be produced. Our aging population as well as visitors deserve good modern conveniences.

Make it Rain!

This is Magic! By writing this article in mid-August, asking you to save as much water as possible, and encouraging you keep us, our animals and wildlife safe by not using BBQs or lighting bonfires, when so many plants are tinder dry, we may ensure significant rain by the end of August. Rain dancing would help as well, could our creative arts sector help?

No idling

It is extraordinary how frequently one sees car drivers sitting with their engines running whilst parked up. Even more get into their cars, start the engine, fiddle with the satnav/ mobile phone and then buckle their seat belts and finally after five minutes pull away. Petrol is close to £2 a litre! Add those five minutes of idling up and how many litres have you burned off in a year for absolutely no purpose? Worth thinking about as you burn money and pump out a poison gas into your environment!

Margot Power

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