Hospital Passport For Those With Additional Needs

Dorset County Hospital have a ‘My Care Passport‘ system in operation for patients with Autism or a Learning Disability or their carers to show to staff upon any admission.
Being admitted or attending a hospital appointment can be frightening, confusing and stressful. For people with a learning disability or autism these feelings can be magnified.
Going into hospital is also now very different because of the Coronavirus. Face coverings to be worn if you can and follow the guidance around social distancing and hand washing. You do not have to wear a face covering if you can’t put on, wear or remove one because of a physical or mental illness, or impairment or disability, or if putting on, wearing or removing a face covering will cause you severe distress.
Hospitals can be noisy and have very bright lights. If this is something that causes you distress or anxiety,

it may be worth bringing in some music that you can listen to with headphones, or even some ear defenders or ear plugs.
Sun visors, baseball caps or sunglasses can also help with the bright lights.

Download your ‘My Care Passport’ to view & print off HERE.

If you would like to talk to someone about your admission or appointment before you come in please contact:

Jo Findlay, Learning Disability and Mental Capacity Act Advisor, 01305 253274.
Sarah Cake, Adult Safeguarding Lead, 01305 253274.
Patient Advice and Liaison Service, 0800 7838058.

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The Painted Nail are taking appointments.

Toni Rodway and her team from The Painted Nail, a unit at Broadwindsor Craft Centre have their fingers crossed for reopening in July! Their booking site is open. (Your appointment will be rescheduled if the government advises prolonged closure.)

A small salon, Toni has issued a list of actions they will be taking in order to comply with procedures.
“We will be putting in place:

💫Adequate time between appointments to sterilise and to practice social distancing
💫Relevent PPE to be worn by staff and clients to wear masks please bring your own if you have one (we can provide disposable ones if needed)
💫Colour swatches to be looked at but not touched
💫Unfortunately no refreshments except bottled water
💫Staff will text you the day before your appointment and you will receive your normal email reminder
💫PLEASE let us know if you cannot attend we will have a big cancellation list I’m sure!
💫Clean towel and new file per client
💫Staff will wear necessary PPE
💫Like shops we preferably want to take card
💫Entrance and Exit separate
💫Tips always welcome😜 but into sanitised pots
💫Preferably contactless payment
💫Please write down your next appointment in your diary or wait for email confirmation as we cannot handout appointment cards
💫PLEASE IF YOU FEEL UNWELL OR SHOW ANY SIGNS OF COVID 19 DON’T ATTEND, BUT LET IS KNOW
💫You can book online but please be aware we have limited appointments and half the staff available also staff days/times have changed!
💫No magazines or leaflets/price list will be handed out
💫Wash hands on arrival, when leaving and use hand sanitiser available
💫Desks, chairs and equipment will be fully sterilised/disinfected
💫No coat stand
💫Please turn up on time, not early or late. We cannot have people waiting within the salon
💫Turn up alone
💫If you have a specific design/product please try and advise before coming
💫Please keep belongings/phones/keys in your pocket or bag not on the desk
💫If you require a patch test for a pre booked appointment please contact us so we can arrange this for you

Please don’t be put off by this to attend your appointment, understand we have to comply in order to open and keep everyone (staff and clients) well. Although I’m sure we all will be well practised in all procedures by the time we open. This message is to reassure not frighten.”

Book your appointment HERE. Your appointment will be rescheduled if the government advises prolonged closure.

#StaySafe #StayPretty

Warning re: BBQs

The relaxation of the Covid-19 restrictions and the marvellous weather may tempt some of us to meet up with family, gather (maximum of 6) & enjoy a barbecue. Dorset Fire & Rescue have issued this warning:

We are heading into ‘extreme’ wildfire risk this weekend and we are asking you, please don’t have a BBQ anywhere other than your garden and please don’t have bonfire as these can easily get out of control #EnjoyItDontDestroyIt #StaySafe #BeResponsible #StayAtHome #BinItDontBurnIt

This film shows the loss and devastation caused by the fire in Wareham Forest last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSHFi4eteUA

Please note: Some viewers may find these images upsetting.

Natural England approve seven new badger culling sites, including Dorset.

It is reported that the new areas cover parts of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Devon, Dorset and Cornwall.

License holders are allowed to control badger numbers in designated areas between 1 June and 31 January.

Three existing control areas have also been re-authorised for culling to resume in Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset.

Natural England has confirmed to the licence holders the minimum and maximum numbers of badgers they can kill.

Government guidance states “all reasonable precautions must be taken to ensure that no badger is subjected to unnecessary suffering” and licence holders must keep a record of their activity.

This follows an announcement made by the government in March, that it would be phasing out culling in favour of vaccinations.

Along with gradually phasing out “intensive culling”, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said trials of a vaccine would take place over the next five years.

On Wednesday, 13th May a bid by the National Farmers’ Union to overturn a government decision not to introduce badger culling in Derbyshire was thrown out of the High Court. The cull was set to go ahead last winter but the government refused to grant licenses to farmers.

Happy St. George’s Day!

St George’s Day in England remembers St George, England’s patron saint.
The anniversary of his death, which is on April 23rd, is seen as England’s national day.

According to legend, he was a soldier in the Roman army who killed a dragon and saved a princess.
While many Christians observe St George’s Day, it is not a UK bank holiday. St George’s Day was once celebrated as widely as Christmas but these celebrations diminished by the end of the 18th century after England had united with Scotland.
St George might be hailed as a national hero, but he was actually born more than 2,000 miles away. He is thought to have been born in Cappodocia (modern day Turkey) and to have died in Lydda (modern day Israel) in the Roman province of Palestine in AD 303.
King Edward III made him the Patron Saint of England when he formed the Order of the Garter in St. George’s name in 1350. The cult of the Saint was further advanced by King Henry V, at the battle of Agincourt in northern France.
In HIS Oxford Dictionary Of Saints, David Hugh Farmer explains that St George was adopted as patron saint in the Middle Ages by England and Catalonia, as well as by Venice, Genoa and Portugal, because he was the personification of the ideals of Christian chivalry.

Celebrate with a traditional English dinner!

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