Health Service advice states all unaffected residents and staff should receive ‘prompt’ vaccinations once an outbreak begins.
But after three positive cases at Falcon House care home on January 11 doctors from the Eden Surgery said their staff would not enter until the residence was ‘Covid clear’.
Health Service advice states all unaffected residents and staff should receive ‘prompt’ vaccinations once an outbreak begins
A second assessment on January 20 found there was still ‘too high a risk’ for the vaccinating team to attend the Bishop’s Stortford care home and vaccinate the remaining residents. West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (WECCG) said in a letter to relatives that it was ‘not safe’ for staff to enter the home because it posed a risk to other GP patients if they were exposed to the virus.
APRIL saw Swindon rally to support those hit hardest by the new lockdown and provided plenty of examples of wonderful community spirit that continued throughout the year. Wood Street favourite Biplob delivered dinners to vulnerable and elderly residents in nearby retirement homes and assisted living facilities. Stratton Juniors FC chairman Magnus Painter with the help of club secretary Paul Surridge cooked up many meals for people around the parish and beyond.His coaches and other volunteers dropped off the deliveries while football matches could not go ahead. He later received a £2,000 grant to continue the scheme and allowed access to Grange Leisure s kitchen.
DARWEN has had some colourful characters among the many doctors who have busied themselves around town over the years. But none came close to Dr Herbert Du Cane, a member of a rich and well-connected London family, in the early years of the Edwardian era. He fell madly in love with one of his patients, Margaret Jane Taylor. Only snag, or snags, was that she was married to a cotton manufacturer and had a son; while he was also married and had three children. The two families were friends. Herbert and Margaret decided that getting out of town wasn’t enough to allow the dust to settle. They decided to start afresh. in Australia. They arrived in Sydney and promptly headed north into the outback to settle in Moree, which would have been “a one-horse, or one-kangaroo township,” according to a local.