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Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Monday, 29 January 2018
Blue Badge Parking at St. Mary's Hospital
Blue Badge Parking at St. Mary's Hospital -
At the front door there are a few spaces to park, so if you get one of these, park as normal, display your badge in your windscreen and you get 3 hours free.
If these are full, go to any car park, find a space & park up.
MAKE SURE YOU KNOW YOUR REGISTRATION & TAKE YOUR BADGE WITH YOU - do not put it in the windscreen!
Go to the front desk, show your badge & quote your registration. You will then get 3 hours free, but if longer, go back to the desk for advice on how to pay the excess.
This is the current arrangement, which may change in a few months once the systems have settled in. Hope this is helpful!
Jackie Gallaher
Posted in Community (and Emergency) Information for the Isle of Wight
Saturday, 27 January 2018
Outline for future of Isle of Wight NHS services
The Local Care Board has made their recommendation to the Isle of Wight NHS and CCG about the future for NHS services on the Island. OnTheWight has initial responses from some IW politicians.
The Local Care Board have revealed their recommendations for the future of the Isle of Wight health service today (Friday).
As revealed last week, one of the options was to transfer all services except A&E and maternity to the mainland, however, it was not the final choice for officials.
Option four is being recommended, but the five options considered were:
- Option One: Current state/business as usual – current service offering and delivery of operational improvement and demand management plans
- Option Two: Flexible workforce – Current service offering with more joint working arrangements with mainland providers across clinical specialties
- Option Three: Emergency and elective centre with enhanced emergency surgical and critical care support from the mainland – Flexible workforce with mainland providers. Transfer of high risk/complex surgical procedures and patients needing Level 3 (advanced support) critical care after the first 24 hours
- Option Four: Emergency and elective centre with enhanced emergency and elective surgical, critical care and paediatric support from the mainland – Flexible workforce with mainland providers. Transfer of high risk /complex emergency & elective surgery; all patients requiring critical care for more than 24 hours (including high acuity medical patients e.g. acute cardiac requiring Critical Care support); neonates requiring Level 3 (advanced support) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) support; and children needing more than 24 hours inpatient care (with exclusions)
Option 5: Enhanced urgent care centre with extended support from the mainland – Enhanced urgent care centre with the majority of patients needing acute care for more
than a few days or surgery requiring an inpatient stay transferred to the mainland.
than a few days or surgery requiring an inpatient stay transferred to the mainland.
Electric shock collars for dogs will be banned in Scotland
Electric shock collars for dogs will be banned in Scotland after thousands backed a campaign to stop the ‘barbaric’ devices.
The Scottish Government said causing pain to animals by ‘inappropriate training methods is clearly unacceptable’.
The collars are still allowed in England (Picture: Shutterstock)
A petition calling for a ban on the collars was signed by more than 19,000 people. The collars were first banned in Wales in 2010, but they are still allowed in England despite calls for a blanket UK ban. Scottish Tory Maurice Golden started the campaign by saying ‘expert advice is clear that electrocuting dogs doesn’t help train them’. The collars are still allowed in England (Picture: Shutterstock) Announcing the ban, Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said: ‘I want there to be no doubt that painful or unpleasant training for dogs will not be tolerated.
‘I am particularly keen to support the work of Scottish enforcement agencies with effective and practical measures so that anyone found causing pain to dogs through the use of collars or other devices can be prosecuted as they deserve.‘ The government said guidance would be finalised in the coming months, with the ban eventually introduced under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2006. Caroline Kisko, secretary of the Kennel Club, previously said the devices were ‘barbaric’.
She said: ‘In this day and age it is absurd that people are able to give their dog an electric shock in a misguided bid to train them – it is a cruel and lazy method.’ Director of animal welfare charity OneKind, Harry Huyton said: ‘Electric shock collars are cruel, unnecessary and ineffective. ‘I’m delighted that the Scottish Government has today taken a stand against cruelty and taken decisive action against their use.’
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/25/electric-shock-dog-collars-banned-scotland-7259580/?ito=social?ito=cbshare
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Friday, 26 January 2018
Christmas Day 2016 concerns where Holidays, Rubbish and Cars!
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/how-thousands-of-people-spend-christmas-day
How thousands of people spend Christmas Day
Figures from popular public information site GOV.UK give an insight into what people were thinking about on Christmas Day last year.
What did you concern yourself on Christmas Day 2016, Rubbish and Cars!
100,000 had some concern over a vehicle in some way or another
75,000 holidays in some form, visa and Bank holidays
Figures from popular public information site GOV.UK give an insight into what people were thinking about on Christmas Day last year, from taxing their cars to searching for a new job.
Top 10 pages viewed on Christmas Day 2016 were:
- Bank Holidays - 41k pageviews
- Check UK visa - 34k pageviews
- Dartford Crossing charge - 28k pageviews
- Vehicle tax (taxing your vehicle) - 22k pageviews
- Check vehicle tax (checking if a vehicle has tax) - 22k pageviews
- Check state pension age - 18k pageviews
- Job search - 15k pageviews
- Check MOT history - 14k pageviews
- Check child maintenance - 13k pageviews
- Get vehicle information from DVLA - 13k pageviews
Bin collection - Other popular information over the festive period included details on bin collection day, which hit a peak of over 20,000 visits on 27th December 2016 (compared to only an average of 3,000 visits per day during the rest of the year). For this sought after information, visit https://www.gov.uk/rubbish-collection-day.
Caroline Nokes - Minister for Government Resilience and Efficiency said:
"People turn to GOV.UK to check information at the click of a button. From taxing your vehicle, to checking local bin collections and renewing your passport - there are many services now available online, replacing laborious paperwork.
"And we intend to continue adding to the services available, and improving how we set them out clearly and simply - making it even easier for people to access what they need."
Published 24 December 2017
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