Ivy Grove News 2 0 1 0 Always Aiming to Provide High Quality and Friendly Family Health Care
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I S S U E THE FREE NEWSLETTER 8.3 FOR OUR PATIENTS D E C Ivy Grove News 2 0 1 0 always aiming to provide high quality and friendly family health care in this issue This Issue Dr Aspinall P.1 We continue our aim to keep you SALT / Citizens Advice P.2 informed of the services at Ivy Grove and also let you know about Flu jabs / Other Help / Visits P.3 the latest medical developments. Exclusions / Common Cold P.4 Dr Aspinall We present our tribute to Dr Aspinall, former senior partner who Tribute to Dr Aspinall, Former Senior Partner died recently. It was with great sadness and deep being at Ripley Hospital on Christmas Day to regret that we informed our patients of carve the patients’ turkey. He particularly Citizen’s Advice the death of Dr Jack Aspinall, our former relished delivering babies in the dead of night, Mr Richard Crowther from Citizen’s senior partner, in September. somehow managing to be bright eyed and wide awake the next morning. He would be Advice continues his series of Dr Aspinall’s funeral was held at the first to acknowledge that none of this St Matthew’s Church in Pentrich with a articles on topical issues affecting would have been possible without Sonia’s packed congregation in attendance. our population. support and dedication. Outstanding tributes were heard to his Flu jabs many years of devotion and caring as a Quite early in his career Jack became the family doctor serving the Ripley senior partner when Dr Thomson retired. He With the flu season well underway, community. On behalf of the practice, was the driving force behind the purpose-built we provide some details of the our current senior partner, Dr Wordley surgery in Ivy Grove that was completed in current flu jab programme. And pays tribute to him here. 1980, and worked there happily for more than 20 years until he finally retired in 2001. He talking of viral illness, we tell you Everyone who knew him was extremely upset would always make sure the surgery was in about the latest studies on when Dr Aspinall (known to all as Jack) became the lead with any new developments in treatments for the common cold. ill with a brain tumour earlier this year and sadly medicine or NHS management, yet was also died on 19th September. committed to every one of his staff and Festive Season interested in their problems. There is usually high demand for Jack arrived in Ripley in 1962 as a young doctor fresh from National Service in the Army, and One of Jack’s proudest moments came quite appointments at this time, so in could tell hilarious tales of vaccinating rows of recently when his son Philip was awarded the order that we may provide the best reluctant soldiers’ buttocks, only occasionally MBE for his services to the community of the service, we tell you about the stopping to change the needle! After leaving the British Virgin Islands (he is president of the army, and needing to settle down with his young Search & Rescue service and active in arrangements over the festive family, he joined Dr Thomson’s well-established several other local charities). Jack and Sonia season and a little too about practice in the large house that stood on the site went as Philip’s guests to Buckingham Palace in October 2009 to see him presented with requesting home visits. of the Co-op supermarket. A number of patients can still remember the exceptionally tall new the award by the Queen. Your feedback doctor somehow folding himself in and out of his Mini - the only transport he could afford at the When he retired he was able to give more Your feedback is important to us – time. time to his beloved golf. We all imagined that feel free to write to us with your he would continue working on his handicap comments or questions. Our From the start his first priority was always the well into his nineties, but tragically patients, even occasionally at the expense of and unfairly he was denied the address is on the back page of this family life. His wife Sonia lost count of the long and happy retirement he so newsletter. number of Sunday roasts that were abandoned deserved. He will be greatly ivy grove for urgent visits, and he always made a point of missed by all of us. surgery Speech and Page 2 Language Therapy Warm Front Did you know the Speech Grant Scheme and Language Therapy (SALT) service holds drop in sessions for children? Richard Crowther continues • Consultations happen on a his series of articles with first-come, first served basis • Most drop ins happen during some information on the established play sessions, so there are usually toys for you Warm Front Grant Scheme and your child to play with while you are waiting • You can ask about things like What is it? tax credit please make an appointment stammering, late talking, autism, speech sound If you are starting to worry • receive disability living at reception to see our adviser development, and how children about the cost of having the allowance or attendance at the surgery. Advice sessions learn to talk • You can pick up some tips for heating on as winter draws in allowance are held every Friday between encouraging communication in babies, and advice about and the nights get colder it • receive income support, 9.00am – 12.00pm. dummies and bottles may be worth having a look to housing benefit or council tax Drop in sessions are held are see if you could qualify for a benefit with a disability About Citizens Advice the following venues. Please ring the centre for dates and Warm Front Grant. premium The Citizens Advice service times: helps people resolve their Alfreton Children’s Centre 01773 521346 Warm Front is the home Do you qualify money, legal and other energy efficiency scheme for a Warm problems by providing Somercotes Children’s Centre 01773 604843 which provides grants to help Front Grant? information and advice, and by Heanor Children’s Centre cover the costs towards influencing policymakers. 01773 530892 improvements in insulation, • are aged 60 or over and Langley Mill Children’s room and water heating receive a means tested benefit Advice provided by the Centre 01773 767982 improvements, draught such as pension credit, Citizens Advice service is free, Howitt Community Room, Heanor 01773 530892 proofing or even help towards housing benefit or council tax independent, confidential, and Ironville Unicorn Room the costs of a whole central benefit. impartial, and available to 01629 532601 heating system. everyone regardless Peveril Community Room, To find out more of race, sex, Ripley 01773 748050 Who qualifies for it? If you would like to find out if disability, Belper Children’s Centre You may qualify if you; you qualify for this scheme or if sexuality or 01773 826651 • have a child under 16 and you have any other issue nationality. Crich Children’s Centre 01773 826651 receive a qualifying benefit or which you would like advice on Duffield Weston Centre 01773 826651 Appointments over Christmas and New Year Demand for same day at this time, the number of January 5th, 2011 inclusive. Practice B oundary emergency appointments is appointments available to We take patients from Ripley usually high during the book in advance will be Please try and get your town and the surrounding weeks of Christmas and reduced, whilst the number repeat prescription slips villages of Marehay, Denby, New Year, whilst routine of appointments available into the surgery well in time Kilburn, Heage, Nether Heage, Butterley, Pentrich, Swanwick, reviews and long term to book on the day will be before the festive season Codnor, Sawmills amongst problems generally take increased. starts. others. We work to a postcode boundary – if you move out of lower priority. our practice area and your new This change will affect the Please note that the address is not on our list (see In order to cope with the time period between surgery closes at 4.00pm reception) you may be asked to change doctors. This is to expected surge in demand December 20th, 2010 and on Christmas Eve. enable us to concentrate our resources on those living in the practice area. Page 3 ALTERNATIVES TO SEEING THE DOCTOR Did you know there are alternatives to booking an appointment with the doctor? It may be frustrating to ring up and find that all of today’s BOOK NOW appointments have been taken up, but did you know that there FOR A FLU JAB! are other ways to access medical help, that may be more appropriate to your needs. Here FLU JABS system) disease some patients may not want are a few alternatives to booking Our eligible patients have 2. Diabetics to have H1N1 vaccine, but an appointment with the doctor. already been sent for their 3. Those with a suppressed there is no choice of having flu jabs. We have held two immune system a flu jab without the H1N1 • If your condition relates to back, 4. Over 65s strain – it is simply not neck or muscular problems, you clinics and over 1,600 can book an appointment with patients have received their 5. Pregnant women who available. the free NHS Physio Direct seasonal flu jab. Despite have never had a swine flu Service without seeing a doctor this number, it still means jab As with previous years, we first. The number to ring is 01773 that nearly the same would strongly encourage 826268 number of eligible patients any eligible patient to have • If you require simple medical WE STRONGLY a seasonal flu jab if they are have not yet received a flu advice, you can ring NHS Direct jab.