Patient Engagement Weekly Bulletin – Thursday 24th April 2019
Subject: CHANGES TO THE NHS PODIATRY SERVICE IN SOMERSET The Podiatry service in Somerset needs to change in order to make sure we have enough specialist staff to look after our patients. We are planning to reduce the number of sites where we provide a podiatry service from 20 to 13. This may mean that some patients will need to travel further for their podiatry appointments. We are asking for patient and carer views about our plans and how this might affect our patients. For more information and to give your views, please see https://response.questback.com/sompar/podiatry2019 or email...
Read MorePatient Engagement Weekly Bulletin – Thursday 18th April 2019
Subject: Carers Support Group Volunteers required in Somerset: Bishops Lydeard, Creech St Michael, Dulverton, Minehead, Taunton, and Wellington; plus telephone Befriender based in Victoria Gate, Taunton. Engage, on behalf of Community Council for Somerset (CCS) are looking for volunteers to support Carers Groups in the West Somerset and Taunton Deane areas. The volunteers would be required to: • Meet and greet guests at the carers groups. • Keep the group talking/hosting skills if the carers agents is busy with a 1:1. • Make tea and coffee. • ...
Read MoreMusic on the Levels: Free Concert
Music on the Levels announces details of its free concert on Sunday 28 April 2019 at 3.30 pm in St Mary’s Church, Westonzoyland, presenting Scythia, a six-piece Bristol-based band. Scythia plays an eclectic mix of Jazz, Blues, Funk and more. ‘Expect beautiful vocal tones from our singer Shairon Lloyd, a buzzing horn section of trumpet and saxophone, alongside the steady grooving pulse of our rhythm section’, comments Michael Loader, their trumpeter and flugel horn player, ‘You’re likely to hear Route 66, Mercy Mercy, Take the A Train, Sharp Dressed Man, It Don’t Mean a Thing...
Read MoreElection of District Councillors for the Kings Isle Ward – 2nd May 2019
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Read MorePatient Engagement Weekly Bulletin – Thursday 11th April 2019
Subject: AGM for League of Friends of South Petherton Community Hospital – Thursday 25 April 2019 The League of Friends for South Petherton Community Hospital will be holding their AGM on Thursday 25 April 2019 from 6.30pm at the hospital (TA13 5EF). Peter Lewis, Chief Executive of Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust will be the main speaker for the evening. Do come along and find out what the merger between Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust means for you and much more…… Everyone is welcome. Please confirm attendance by...
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