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September 2013
Competition
Prize puzzle: Win a £50 Tesco voucher Enter our free prize puzzle to win a £50 Tesco voucher, kindly provided by the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke. Your task is to find as many Bradley Stoke road names as you can in the wordsearch grid. For roads that end in these common words: Avenue, Close, Crescent, Drive, Gardens, Gate, Grove, Lane, Leaze, Mead, Road or Way, only the first part of the road name is used. For example, for Bradley Stoke Way, you would need to find Bradley Stoke only. For road names that begin with The, look for the second part of the name only. For example, for The Park you would need to find Park. Some letters appear in more than one road name. To enter, send us the list of road names you have found by the closing date of 25th September 2013 - by email or post.
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Entries to: 83 Snowberry Close, Bradley Stoke, BS32 8GB OR competitions@bradleystokejournal.co.uk
Ask the Doctor with Dr Norman Douglas of Bradley Stoke Surgery Shingles • The prevention of Shingles • Patient Participation Groups If you have had Shingles you will know all about the pain it causes and really do not want to repeat that experience. Shingles is caused by reactivation of the Chicken Pox virus in your nervous system. It is often recurrent and expresses itself when you are run down and vulnerable with severe pain in a specific area of your body This is usually followed by a bubbly type rash usually in the same area. If you have Shingles you can pass the Chicken pox virus to susceptible individuals through direct contact. The treatment is an antiviral medication which needs to be given as early as possible in the disease process to be effective. To prevent shingles and decrease recurrence, your GP practice will be offering all patients aged 70 and 79 a vaccination against Shingles which is well worth having.
This will be an ongoing programme for all patients after their 70th birthday. We will be doing a catch up programme as well starting with those aged 79 this year and then 78 etc over the years. There is not enough stock to do any other groups. If you are 70 or 79 or a carer
for someone in this category please ask at your surgery or get it with your Flu Jab.
Patient Participation Groups (PPGs)
All our practices will be trying to involve our patients in these groups. They are based on co-operation between practice staff and patients. They will
help to improve communication with patients and will allow practices to change the way they work through patient consultation for the benefit of the overall patient population. These groups can revolve around face to face meetings or could be organised through email contact as in a virtual PPG. It is a good way for patients to be involved constructively in their surgery working. If you are interested in being involved in one of these groups, you should contact your surgery. My space is fast running out so please enjoy the rest of the summer and don’t delay in getting your flu shot and, if eligible, your shingles vaccination. Dr Norman Douglas www.bradleystokesurgery.co.uk
The prize will be awarded to the entrant finding the most names. In the event of a tie, a draw will be made to determine the winner. The winner will be announced on our website and in the October edition of the magazine. The editor’s decision is final.
“Unsafe” play area surface to be replaced
Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Finance Committee has agreed to spend over £6,000 on replacing some of the play area surfacing in the Jubilee Green park after consultants advised that the existing gravel-based surface is not compliant with safety regulations. Members of the committee were presented with a number of costed solutions, ranging in price from £2,000 to over £18,000. Following a site visit and much discussion, they agreed to engage with a company that had proposed the installation of a safety surface of Bonded Rubber Mulch (in a Forest Blend colour) around three items of play equipment, at an estimated cost of £6,150.
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