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The The Parish Post 64 Number Oct. 2015 for Beambridge Clunbury Clunton Coston Cwm Kempton Little Brampton Obley Purslow The Llan & Twitchen Our NHS Services Under Threat? the budget available to community This document was recently sent to services, expected to pick up 30% of Clunbury Parish Council. activity from hospitals, is pitiful and Future Fit totally inadequate. • ur organisation, Shropshire Defend that, although Future Fit is predicated O Our NHS, has produced a report on community hospital beds taking ‘Future Fit: patients who Briefing will be Notes’ . The discharged document is earlier from a critical in- Telford’s depth review Princess R o y a l P? of the al R I ospit Hospital, Future Fit ury H ewsb programme, l Shr there is Roya which is the currently a blueprint for NHS hospital services in the strategy of closing community hospital county, drawn up by the Clinical beds to save money . Commissioning Groups in Shropshire, Future Fit is a failing programme. It is and Telford and Wrekin. Our concerns ill-conceived and based essentially on include the following: cost-cutting at the expense of patient • that the inevitable outcome of the care. The risks to patients are huge. We Future Fit programme will be the believe Future Fit must be stopped. closure of the A&E and acute hospital Our report is a public document. It is, of at Shrewsbury. necessity, an in-depth report but the • that this will leave a single over- salient points are given in the three-page burdened A&E and hospital at Telford, Executive Summary at the beginning. as well as leading to dangerously long Should your council wish to discuss the journey times for many of us in a report at one of your own meetings, or in medical emergency. any other forum, we would be very happy • that rural urgent care centres, once a to provide a speaker. Michael Green given, have now been designated as (for Shropshire Defend Our NHS) 640525 optional extras; effectively ‘kicked into Editor’s note: The report is available in touch’, with no decisions to be taken full via the Parish Post Newsletter page until after consultation on hospital of the Clunbury Parish Website at closure has finished. This is a huge www.theparishpost.org. blow for rural areas. Contact any Parish Councillor if you • that, now the funding arrangements for think this should be pursued. Future Fit have been fully revealed, Please send your contributions by the 20th of each month Another Threat to our NHS? asking for patient and public opinion has Hips and Knees in Danger closed, any resident who feels strongly hropshire NHS wants to reduce the about this issue should write or email Dr S number of hip and knee replacement Povey immediately to register their operations – and make patients wait opinion or ask for further and wider longer for surgery. The rate of operations consultation before any further steps or a in the county is ‘higher than the national final decision is taken. average’ and is expected to grow even Our views on how the local NHS more because of Shropshire’s aging spends our money on the future of our population, according to Shropshire healthcare should be heard. So if – like Clinical Commissioning Group, who most people in Shropshire – you missed quietly shoehorned six ‘public and patient the ‘listening workshops’ and the listening workshops’ into a three-week surveys, your views on this plan are still period at the end of August, with in some urgently needed. Please write to: cases, less than a week’s notice. Not surprisingly attendance at the meetings Dr Julian Povey, was very low. Similarly an online and NHS Shropshire Clinical paper-based survey of opinion between Commissioning Group, August 10 and September 2 produced William Farr House, only 61 returns. (Detailed results can be Mytton Oak Road, found on www.shropshireccg.nhs.uk Shrewsbury SY3 8XL under Get Involved then Orthopaedic or by email at [email protected] Surgery.) to get your voice heard. It is vital to This plan to cut this vital surgery that have a say in future treatment that transforms lives is being presented as a could affect the quality of your life and ‘proactive approach to osteoarthritis’ to allow you to remain active, healthy, reverse the ‘ever increasing trend for and to work if you want to...and live surgery’. Dr Julian Povey from pain-free. Sylvia Jones Shropshire CCG, said in a press release that this change will be ‘balanced and safety checked’ with support from Coffee and a Giggle other services alongside increasing he Macmillan Coffee Morning at resources to prevent the ‘complications T Clunbury Village Hall on Friday 25 of osteoarthritis’, but did not give any September, was a huge success. Thank details of what the other services or you to everyone who came and joined us resources might be. He thinks that for cake, coffee and a good giggle. better pain and weight management and Thanks to everyone who donated physiotherapy will be enough to avoid or scrummy cakes and raffle prizes, and delay operations for many patients and thank you to all who helped tidy up the he also wants to raise the threshold for village hall afterwards, it was very much surgery so that fewer will qualify under a appreciated. new points system. Duncan Brown won the ‘Spot the cake’ Shropshire Council’s Health and Social game and Barbara Freeman won the Care Scrutiny Committee backed the ‘Guess how many 100's and 1000's are plan in July, and now the CCG have on the cake’ game, altogether we raised recommended that the new plan is a huge £235. Thank you all again. approved. Although the time frame for Laura Richards We plough the fields and scatterK and then we celebrate ST MARY’S CHURCH, HARVEST FESTIVAL CLUNTON at St Swithin’s Church, Clunbury HARVEST THANKSGIVING 2 October, 7pm Friday 9 October, 7.00pm followed by a hungry followed by a HARVEST SUPPER Ploughman’s Supper in the CROWN INN (with a bar by JJ!) Supper by ticket only - in advance at Clunbury Village Hall Tickets £8.00 Tickets for supper (on the door): available from the Crown Inn £6, children under 14 free and Church Committee Operation Christmas Child Clunbury Village Hall Presents t's Shoe Box time again! Can you A Film & Food Night I help by filling a shoe box with small gifts that can be sent by Samaritan's Purse to underprivileged children in other parts of the world. Leaflets will be in your churches soon, or contact Pat Harding for information. 660169 or email: [email protected] Boxes will need to be ready by early November. THANK YOU Tickets BYO CONTACTS £7.50 drinks Email: [email protected] Website: www.theparishpost.org Saturday 24 October at 7pm Phone: Sue Hill 660355 Cottage Pie served before the film or Gisèle Wall 660561 & Spotted Dick in the interval !! The editorial team does not accept responsibility for any opinions expressed by contributors and reserves the For reservations please contact right to edit contributions if deemed appropriate. Eirlys Ellams on 660625 Hogspital News One Night With Rev Elvis! ll the prickly lvis Presley is coming to town! Andy A patients at E Kelso’s unique Elvis Tribute Act will be Clunton hogspital seen at Aston on Clun Village Hall on would like to thank Saturday 17 October starting at 6.15pm. the many very kind Andy’s show comprises the very best of people in Clunton Elvis with rock, ballad and gospel songs who donated their and it’s an evening not to be missed! old newspapers for bedding. This was Andy is Chaplain to Worcester Warriors very much appreciated and means that Rugby Club but he’s now also on the road the autumn influx of sick and orphan with Elvis. This year he was shortlisted for hedgehogs have warmth and comfort. Britain’s Got Talent! Many young hedgehogs are now Andy says of his show: ‘I want everyone desperately trying to put on weight for to have a great evening enjoying the best hibernation and are particularly of Elvis and hopefully dancing! I’m able to vulnerable. If you see a hedgehog out share a little of Elvis’ journey in between during the day it will need help. Please songs and also share how some of his contain it somewhere safe and warm, journey and mine were the same. It will and telephone the British Hedgehog definitely be a night to remember!’ Preservation Society on 01584 890 801 A near-fatal motorbike accident was to or see www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk . change the course of Andy’s life and parts Jenny Aylwin-Foster of his amazing story are woven into his act Our New Vicar to make it a memorable and magical e are looking evening. Do visit Andy’s website to find out W forward to more: www.revelvis.co.uk welcoming the Rev Tickets are £8.00 and include a hot Simon Mondon and supper. Bring your own drinks. Call Wendy his wife Tandy on 660218 or Gloria on 672184 towards the end of October. He will be l i c e n s e d o n 9 November at Clun church and he will be taking his first service at St Swithin’s at 6.30pm on 15 November. Christina Whitehead (21 Sept - 19 Oct - 16 Nov - 21 Dec) Celebration Bells ♦Leave Clun at 9.30; collect n 9 September, local ringers passengers between Clun and O dedicated their Wednesday Craven Arms; arrive in Shrewsbury at Clunbury practice to HM Queen about 11.