Get App Savvy a List of Five Super Useful ‘Apps’ That Might Make a Difference in Your Day to Day Life
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EngageYour FREE magazine from your local NHS Issue 11: November 2017 Get app savvy A list of five super useful ‘apps’ that might make a difference in your day to day life Continuing the #hellomynameis legacy... NEW GIPTON COMMUNITY CENTRE IS A THINGS TO DO PHOENIX FROM THIS WINTER THE ASHES Round up of winter activities in Leeds Stay Well This Winter All the info you PLUS... need on flu jabs SPOTLIGHT ON BOSTON SPA / FESTIVE FRAUDSTERS / ENGAGEMENT HUB / CONGRATS TO ST GEMMA’S / LOCAL VOLUNTEERS / GARDENING GURU / RECIPES / QUIZ CORNER ... Stay Well Contents Stay Well This Winter 03 If you’ve been offered a free flu jab This Winter by the NHS, it means you need it! Chris Pointon 04 The husband of Dr Kate Granger tells us how he is ensuring her As the nights are getting darker and the #hellomynameis campaign for weather turns colder, we give you advice more personalised care in the NHS lives on after her death on how to keep the flu at bay, as well as lots of great ways to beat the winter blues. New Gipton Fire Station 06 community centre We’ve got a round-up of activities going We unveil how the oldest operational on in Leeds over the colder months, not fire station in the country has been to mention a recipe for a fabulous chicken transformed into a fantastic multi- korma – guaranteed to warm you up! purpose community centre Get app savvy We’ve had the pleasure of chatting to Chris Pointon about 07 Five apps to make a difference in your day to day life how his wifes, Dr Kate Granger, legacy lives on in her #hellomynameis campaign for more personalised care Spotlight on Boston Spa in the NHS. Influenced by her own experiences as both a 08 Find out all about the picturesque doctor and cancer patient, she campaigned tirelessly to village of Boston Spa and the many encourage all staff to introduce themselves to patients: a charms it has to offer simple idea that makes a big difference. Kate sadly passed Beware the festive fraudsters away in July 2016 and Chris has been continuing her work 09 The scams to look out for this ever since: conference speaking, book writing and raising festive season to ensure Christmas over £250,000 for the Yorkshire Cancer Centre. Find out doesn’t end up costing you more what he’s been up to on pages four and five. than you’d planned Over recent months a fantastic group of volunteer health Engagement hub champions have been hard at work, meeting people in 10 Leeds NHS organisations are working their own communities to raise awareness about small together so that the patient voice is lifestyle changes that can have a positive impact on health well and truly heard and wellbeing. They have also been encouraging people Congratulations to to take up NHS screening invitations, as early diagnosis is 11 St Gemma’s so important in improving outcomes from conditions such St Gemma’s Hospice celebrates as cancer and heart disease. teaching hospice accolade Big congratulations go to St Gemma’s which has become Local volunteers making the first hospice in the UK (and in fact the world), to be 12 a difference awarded university teaching hospice status. Find out Salsa and coffee combine as GP more on page 11. practice volunteers go the extra mile Finally, this couldn’t be our winter issue without Gardening guru mentioning Christmas. It’s supposed to be the season 13 Creating a healthy oasis away from of goodwill but unfortunately it can also be a time the hustle and bustle of city life when scams are rife. So on page nine we’ve offered Recipes our top tips to ensure you and your loved ones have Make yourself a curry inspired the merry Christmas you deserve and don’t fall foul 14 by royalty of any festive fraudsters. Quiz time! 15 Get your brain active with this edition’s quizzes As ever we’d welcome your feedback on this magazine. Please get in touch if you’ve been Sports and health inspired to write an article or have a suggestion 16 Tips to help you stay active for what we could cover next. Just drop us an this winter email: [email protected] 02 Intro / Contents KEEP FLU AT BAY THIS WINTER Experts are increasingly concerned about the risk of flu circulating this winter and that’s why we want to make sure our readers are ready to fight it off. One of the best ways to do this is by getting your flu jab, if you’ve been offered a free one it means you need it. The flu jab is offered free by the NHS to those who are particularly vulnerable to the infectious illness. For many it can be an unpleasant experience but for some people the risks are far greater and, occasionally, can be fatal. If you belong in any of the groups below, it’s really Flu vaccine Stay Well important you get protected this winter. You are eligible to for children This Winter receive a free flu jab if you: The flu vaccine is free on There’s lots of myths • are 65 years of age or over the NHS for: circulating about the flu • are pregnant • children over the age of six jab so it’s important that you know it is safe and • have certain medical months with a long-term it does not give you the conditions such as diabetes, health condition flu (although you may heart disease, lung disease, • children aged two and three experience some minor kidney disease or a on 31 August 2017 – that is, side effects). Find out more neurological disease born between 1 September about the flu vaccine and • have a weakened immune 2013 and 31 August 2015 how you can Stay Well system – for example, • children in reception class This Winter by visiting because you’re having and school years one, two, www.nhs.uk/staywell chemotherapy or have HIV three and four • are living in a long-stay • children aged between six residential care home or months and two years of other long-stay care facility age who are eligible for the • receive a carer’s allowance, flu vaccine should have the or you are the main carer flu jab. for an elderly or disabled person whose welfare may Children eligible for the flu be at risk if you fall ill. vaccine aged between two and 17 will usually have the flu vaccine nasal spray. Stay Well This Winter 03 #hellomynameis We get talking to Chris Pointon, husband of the late Dr Kate Granger, who tells us how he’s been continuing with Kate’s legacy of #hellomynameis You’ve continued with your late Have you faced any challenges On your journey to continue wife’s legacy of #hellomynameis, whilst continuing to campaign Kate’s legacy of #hellomynameis how has this been for you? for #hellomynameis? has anything stood out for you? #hellomynameis had to continue Trying to balance everything When Kate was alive, she was for myself, it was something that together so that I can continue doing all these conferences and Kate and I came up with four years with the campaign, the grieving various talks; I suppose I hadn’t ago (2013). It just feels like it’s the of losing Kate is ongoing, and appreciated the magnitude of the right thing to do because it keeps my employer has been absolutely campaign across the world. It’s Kate’s name alive as well as helping amazing throughout Kate’s illness only when Kate was seriously ill other people. and her passing. towards the end of her life and when she passed away, that I’ve The campaign has opened I’m a perfectionist when it comes actually realised how prevalent up various other doors to to work and other things I do, so the campaign is. The support compassionate care and it also I want to give a 100% to everything it continues to get across the makes me feel like I’m making that I do. One of the challenges world and the sheer passion that a difference. Speaking in front for me has been managing my people have for the campaign, of large crowds of people about own time. I tend to push myself it’s humbling. It’s nice to know our journey and our story wasn’t to the limit and by keeping busy that the campaign will continue something I used to feel overly it also means that I’ve not got time to be used and Kate’s name has comfortable with. For the last to think about reality. This is good now been used for many awards two to three years I’ve started to but at times I need to remember across the UK and the world. Kate’s feel more comfortable, and with that I’ve just lost my wife and name is also being used to recruit Kate’s passing last year I’m the her parents have just lost their new nurses, who are involved in figurehead of the campaign now. daughter as well as the impact projects named after her. her passing has had on the rest Talking about Kate and the of our family and friends. campaign helps with the grieving process, as I’ve lost my soul mate The biggest challenge is making and I’ll never forget Kate. decisions based on what I think Kate would want.