Cat Smith MP

HAMBLETON COUNCIL (cont) CAT SMITH MP

Hambleton/Stalmine Flood Action Group

To keep up-to-date on flooding in Hambleton and Stalmine a full list of current issues and minutes from FLAG, Wyre Flood Forum and Making Space For Water meetings are available on the website. Meetings are generally held quarterly in the Village Hall.

Roads

The new Speed Indicator Device (SpID) on Marsh Lane is providing data that shows some vehicles travelling at very high speeds for a 30mph road. The data collected will be analysed and passed on to the Police on a regular basis. Please drive with care around the village.

Yvonne Walton - Clerk t: 07485 295 810 e: hambletonpc@yahoo.co.uk fb: Hambleton (Wyre) Parish Council www.hambletonparishcouncil.org.uk

I hope you all had a good Christmas and were able to spend time with those you love and care about. At the time of writing we’re still holding our collective breath over the latest Covid situation. Throughout the pandemic the British people have been required to make big sacrifices to support the national effort against coronavirus. Sacrifices which have impacted on our lives, livelihoods and liberties. Sacrifices which have been necessary to protect ourselves, to protect the ones we love and necessary to protect our NHS – a service contending with winter pressures, a serious backlog, the Delta variant and now the Omicron variant.

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CAT SMITH MP (cont)

in to the pandemic with NHS waiting lists at a record 4.5 million. There were 100,000 staff vacancies along with a shortage of 112,000 staff in social care.

Now the NHS is locked in a race against time. A race against the fastest variant of Covid we have seen to date. A race to get as many people boosted as quickly as possible. To every NHS worker, every GP, every pharmacist, every public health official and every volunteer – thank you. Thank you for working so hard in the run up to Christmas to administer the booster vaccination – to give as many of us as possible the best protection possible during a period when we’re mixing so closely with those we hold dear. For those of you who’ve cut short your holidays, thank you – and for those of you who are exhausted, thank you. But it’s not enough to just say thank you. If we demand the health and social care workforce do their duty as professionals, the government must also show greater respect to their professional voice and experience - on pay, on conditions and on workload. It’s often said that the NHS runs on goodwill. I’d like to see the government showing greater goodwill in return and to engage with the royal colleges and staff trades unions not just on the plan for vaccine rollout to their members, but on the debate about the future of our health and social care systems and the big workforce challenge. And this should be a partnership. People who work in health and social care do so because they really believe in what they’re doing. They really care. And they have so much to offer if the government will listen to them.

No matter what further restrictions might be brought in over the next few weeks, it remains

Vacancies for Babies

Have a Happy & Peaceful New Year!

Weekdays 8am to 6pm all year except Public Holidays (early drop-off on request). Our Nursery is protected by Viroklenz Sanitisation Service

We wish all our families, past, present & future, a very merry Christmas & a happy & prosperous New Year!

Tel: 01253 700181 to arrange a visit www.moss-side-childrens-nursery.co.uk