08/02/2012
The NHS in Buckinghamshire has been working together to look at how to develop health services that better meet the needs of local people, through the Better Healthcare in Bucks programme. Over the past few months, doctors, nurses and other clinical colleagues have been meeting together through the Better Healthcare in Bucks programme to discuss current opportunities and challenges and to look at how services should develop. During September and October (2011) we held broader discussions wi...
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08/02/2012
As part of our plans to develop our stroke services, we are creating an expanded specialist 30-bedded hyper acute and acute stroke unit at Wycombe Hospital. This has been enabled through the merger of the hyper acute and acute inpatient stroke services currently provided at Wycombe and Stoke Mandeville hospitals.The dedicated stroke unit will be based in wards 8 and 9 at Wycombe Hospital and will see patients in the hyper acute, acute and rehab phase of treatment. The unit will offer a number of...
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24/01/2012
As the Volunteer Centre for Buckinghamshire, Community Impact Bucks is about to run a recruitment campaign raising awareness of the need for volunteers who would be available to help their neighbours or vulnerable people in their local community in the case of bad weather or other emergency. This might be collecting a prescription, clearing snow or other blockages, delivering essential groceries or simply checking that someone is alright. The recruitment campaign will start in early February and...
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24/01/2012
The NHS in Buckinghamshire has been working together to look at how to develop health services that better meet the needs of local people, through the Better Healthcare in Bucks programme. Over the past few months, doctors, nurses and other clinical colleagues have been meeting together through the Better Healthcare in Bucks programme to discuss current opportunities and challenges and to look at how services should develop. During September and October (2011) we held broader discussions wi...
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17/01/2012
Message from Duncan Burke – Director of Communications and Public EngagementSouth Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) is launching a campaign this Thursday in a bid to stop people calling 999 for non-life threatening reasons. With the service receiving 1,235 hoax calls and many more inappropriate calls from January 2011 to October 2011, this is an increasing problem that is putting people’s lives at risk. In a concerted effort to address this issue, SCAS is headlining the campaign with ...
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20/12/2011
The leadership of local Clinical Commissioning Group, United Commissioning, has been acknowledged by the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) at an awards ceremony in November.The NAPC Vision Awards, which this year celebrated the efforts of trailblazing Clinical Commissioning Groups, named ex-Chief Executive, Elaine Young, ‘Clinical Commissioning Group Manager of the year’.Elaine was recognised for her outstanding work in supporting the development of Clinical Commissioning i...
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08/12/2011
A group of volunteers is launching a new poetry booklet, ‘Gloriously Us’, to raise funds for dementia services in Buckinghamshire. The introduction to the booklet has been written by award-winning author, Joanne Harris.Supported by staff from the Aylesbury office of the Alzheimer’s Society, the volunteers have held a number of successful poetry workshops with the dementia community and the booklet showcases the results of these sessions, along with photographs taken by a local ...
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30/11/2011
Plans are being finalised to ensure the Trust is able to maintain core services on the day of action, especially emergency and critical care services. Of paramount importance is that patient care is not put at risk or compromised as a result of the industrial action.Bob Peet, chief operating officer, said: “We will do all we can to minimise any disruptions to our services during the day of action, however we ask patients and visitors to our hospitals to be aware that there may be some inte...
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30/11/2011
A Buddi is a small device which can track the person wearing it. It means that if the person wanders off and gets lost then they can be located quickly. It is particularly useful for someone who has dementia or a learning disability, giving carers peace of mind that if the person they care for wanders off they can be found quickly.If you are going away with someone who has dementia, a learning disability or autismyou might want to consider using the Buddi system. Units can be borrowed for up to ...
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23/11/2011
Hattie Collison who works in our Young Carers’ team is diving 10,000 feet from a plane in order to raise £400. This is why:"I work with a group of young people called "Young Carers". They are an amazing bunch who need to care for their parents or siblings due to terminal illness, mental health, disabilities or substance misuse.I have arranged a fundraiser which means I have to do a sky dive on 10th March 2012!I have to raise at least £400 to enable to do this and so that the char...
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