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HS2 Enablement continues
Following last month’s revelations of the wooden “henge” near the bypass, the HS2 Archaeologists have been moving south and are now working in the field by Bacombe Lane. They are expected to be there until September, and Fusion have also announced the next set of digs at Grove Farm. That site is where Balfour Beatty have been based while undertaking the National Grid pylon changes. They have completed the installation of three huge towers to enable the circuits to pass safely over the top of the railway at the Small Dean Embankment and the North Cutting near Nash Lee Road. Fusion are also undertaking roadworks on the A413 to enable the volume of construction traffic to be handled safely. In
addition to the junctions on the Amersham bypass and at Great Missenden; the Small Dean roundabout is to be widened allowing better access for lorries building the viaduct and construction compounds. This work is on behalf of Buckinghamshire Council who secured a number of “Assurances” from HS2 that the construction traffic would only use well defined routes, that extra traffic cameras would be provided locally, and that traffic could be monitored on the “hill-top” routes that might be used as rat runs to avoid congestion on the A413. The HS2 trucks are expected to be GPS tracked so that any complaints can be investigated; and this should be confirmed in the Local Traffic Management Plan that is still being developed. We await its publication…
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NEWS FROM WENDOVER HEALTH CENTRE - 01296 623452 - www.westongrove.com household contacts of those with weakened immune systems and all others were identified Changes to the doctor team for shielding. Children aged two to eleven on 31 Dr Charles Todd will be retiring as a partner at the August 2020 and all pregnant women are also end of September 2020. Dr Miraj Patel is joining target groups. the team and will take over Dr Todd’s patient list. Dr Zohra Shaikh is also joining the team and will Those aged 50-64 years who are not in a risk take over Dr Amy Pennefather’s list. Our current group may be offered NHS flu vaccination in GPs Registrars are Dr Muhammad Uddin, Dr Femi November and December if sufficient stocks of Aranmolate, and Dr Diane Leung. GP Registrars flu vaccine are available after all at-risk groups are doctors who are undertaking post-graduate listed above have been immunised. training in general practice. For up to date information on details of our flu clinics and eligibility criteria, please visit our Flu vaccination 2020 website or Facebook page. When you attend a Protecting as many people as possible against flu clinic, if possible, please walk to the Health flu, especially those at higher risk, is an especially Centre or park elsewhere as parking spaces will high priority given the coronavirus pandemic. We be very limited. will receive our first deliveries of flu vaccine at the end of September and vaccination clinics will Appointments commence shortly thereafter. We anticipate that If you have a medical problem or concern about the clinics for adults will take place on Saturdays, yourself or someone who you care for, please use but the organisation will be different from the the NHS symptom checker on the Ask NHS App past to maintain social distancing and allow for (accessible via our website). If you then need staff to clean and change PPE. As a result, clinics to contact us, please call Reception during our opening hours. All appointments with GPs and all will be strictly on a booked appointment basis. urgent appointments with nurses will continue to Priority groups for vaccination will be similar be on a telephone first basis. Please share with to previous years, that is everyone aged over the Receptionist brief details of your concerns 65 years on 31 March 2011; those in clinical so that you can be directed to the best person in risk groups – including patients with long term the team to help you, and where appropriate a heart, lung, (including COPD and asthma if call back will be arranged. Urgent problems will you are using inhaled steroids), liver or kidney always be dealt with on the same day. The doctor problems, diabetes, and the very obese (BMI or nurse you speak to will arrange a face to face above 40); and carers of older or disabled people, appointment if this is necessary. Follow us on Facebook at WestongrovePartnership
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Our current opening hours are 8am-6.30pm Monday to Friday. For the time being we are not offering extended hours and will therefore be closed on Saturday mornings. On Tuesday 22 September and Wednesday 21 October we will close at 1pm for staff training.
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Farewell from Dr Charles Todd
It is with very mixed feelings that I am retiring as a partner. I have worked continuously since I qualified as a doctor in 1977, and I feel the time has come to step back and spend more time on other activities and with my wife and family. I am not hanging up my stethoscope altogether, and I will continue to do some locum and sessional work locally. I came to Wendover in 2005, after working for 22 years overseas, mostly in Zimbabwe. I felt very welcome from the outset and have gained so much from my time working at the Health Centre. I would like to thank my partners, all the staff of Westongrove and the Wendover community for their support over the past 15 years. Wendover News September 2020
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