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Job Opportunities South 20 Woodham Focus South Woodham Focus Smiths Environmental Products Ltd Manufactures of fan heating products require a Part time cleaner for our premises in South Woodham Ferries, duties including but are not limited to cleaning, offices, factory and meeting rooms areas. Hours required 7am – 11am Monday – Friday Rate is £7.83 per hour To arrange interview please ring Phil Cross on 01245 324900 Sparkles Tanning & Beauty We are now looking for an experienced beautician qualified at level 3 to join our busy salon. Flexible hours including a late night and saturdays essential. Please send cv to info@sparkles-sunbeds.co.uk Job Opportunities Position to fill? Advertise on this page for as little as £26 plus VAT Send your Situations Vacant to us and we will help you get the right candidtate to fill that vacancy. Send to info@maypolepress.com ! "#$%!&'()!*+)#,)$-!! Part Time Cleaner, There is a position available for a Part time enthusiastic and energetic cleaner to work Three mornings a week 0800 to 1200 Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Duties are the cleaning of Offices canteens and toilets. All equipment, PPE, and work wear provided. There is a position available for a Part time enthusiastic and energetic cleaner to work Three Pay £8.50 per hour mornings a week Please 0800 E-mail to CV 1200 to Monday, stankidney@forktruckdirect.ltd.uk Wednesday and Friday. Phone: 01245 322252 Fax: 01245 322227 Duties are the cleaning ! of Offices canteens and toilets. ! ! All equipment, PPE, and work wear provided. Pay £8.50 per hour Please E-mail CV to stankidney@forktruckdirect.ltd.uk Phone: 01245 322252 Fax: 01245 322227 ! "#$%!&'()!*+)#,)$-!! SERVICE CONTROLLER And Office Supervisor There is a position available for a Part time enthusiastic and energetic cleaner to work Three mornings a week 0800 to 1200 Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Duties are the cleaning of Offices canteens and toilets. All equipment, PPE, and work wear provided. We have a full time position available to join our Pay £8.50 per hour well motivated Please service E-mail team. CV Ideally to you will already have stankidney@forktruckdirect.ltd.uk excellent organisation and customer Phone: 01245 322252 Fax: 01245 322227 service skills and experience, ! a good telephone manner, and be computer literate. Excellent training provided. Salary £26,000 per annum to start E-mail CV to darrinjones@forktruckdirect.ltd.uk SOUTH WOODHAM FOCUS www.facebook.com/swfocus
South Woodham Focus ASTHMA DEATH RATES IN THE UK ARE AMONG THE WORST IN EUROPE says Paul Gallagher in the i newspaper – and the story is also extensively covered elsewhere. He adds that: “The UK has one of the worst asthma death rates in Europe with the rate of people dying from an asthma attack increasing by more than 20 per cent in five years. Asthma UK said the death rate between 2011-15 was also almost 50 per cent higher here than the average on the continent. The charity said the it is “extremely worried” as the National Review of Asthma Deaths revealed two thirds of asthma deaths could have been prevented with basic asthma care. Around 1,400 people died from an asthma attack in the UK in 2015, the most recent figures show. Air pollution has been blamed for exacerbating the problem.” Other factors include the fact that patients frequently don’t appreciate the implications of the diagnosis and don’t use their treatments as advised ... for example they may overuse their ‘quick fix’ blue reliever inhaler and (in those that need one) may underuse their ‘preventer’ inhaler. The Asthma UK website has excellent advice for those who want to extend and update their knowledge of the condition. One of the fundamental aims is to improve diagnosis of asthma. NICE is recommending OBJECTIVE tests, which include spirometry and FeNO, to help confirm a diagnosis of asthma. This can achieve more accurate diagnosis and therefore more effective treatment, says NICE ... which goes on to explain that .... Spirometry tests assess how well someone’s lungs work by measuring how much air they inhale and exhale, and how quickly. FeNO tests measure the levels of nitric oxide in the breath. Increased levels are thought to be related to lung inflammation and asthma. Professor Mark Baker, director of the centre for guidelines at NICE, said: “We are recommending objective testing with spirometry and FeNO for most people with suspected asthma; a significant enhancement to current practice. Most practices in this area can offer their patients Spirometry. Nitric oxide tests are ‘the new kid on the block though and, whilst recommended by NICE as best practice, facilities are few and far between as the gadgets are costly and require nurses with expertise in asthma care. The local practices asked ‘the NHS’ to provide these gadgets having been told that we’d be given a decision on these matters within a day or two. Six months later we were still waiting! At my practice we are fortunate in having a Patient Participation Group which believes that actions speak louder than words – so they paid for one rather than have our patients disadvantaged by having to carry on waiting for funding to be forthcoming from the NHS. Dr Samantha Walker, director of research and policy at Asthma UK, says “Asthma kills and we are urging the NHS to invest in better frontline asthma services.” Let’s hope her call to action is heeded before too long. For a straightforward explanation of all this, Google: ‘New ways to diagnose and manage asthma can improve care, says NICE.’ Even those who don’t mind a plethora of long words, though, should think twice before they Google: ‘Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management - NICE.’ Maybe it’s not global warming. Maybe it’s just planetary menopause. FOCUS ON HEALTH rise in population The World Ovarian Cancer Coalition (WOCC) reminds us that ovarian cancer has the lowest survival rate of all female cancers. (Global five-year survival rates range between 30 and 50 per cent of women, and in most countries have been slow to rise. By comparison, in many countries, over 80 per cent of women with breast cancer will survive for five years or more. PG quotes Elisabeth Baugh, WOCC chair, who said: “Each year on May 8 we celebrate World Ovarian Cancer Day to help raise awareness of the disease and the need for change.” For those of you who are thinking: “Oh no, not another ‘awareness day to go with all those others (Constipation Awareness Day to name but one) and sympathise with those who instigated ‘National Nothing Day’ as an antidote, let me tell you that finding alternative ways of focussing the media’s attention on matters of importance is well nigh impossible. I just asked my husband if he remembers what today is. Scaring men is easy! ESSEX SURGERY CLOSURE PROTEST. The Daily Mail reports that a “Grandmother, 89, takes to the streets to protest the US firm that is shutting her GP surgery after 63 years.” Kate Pickles and Miles Dilworth write that: “Mrs Scott signed up as a patient at the (Harlow) surgery when it first opened in 1955. She and her late husband Bert moved to the area in 1953. The mother of three remembers the family doctor rushing to her home in the dead of night when her eldest daughter, Madeline, had meningitis.” They quote ‘Connie’ as follows: “‘The family doctor knew all my girls’ names and would ask after them,’ she said. ‘There was such a community feel about the place. The community even named a new estate, Meyrick Mead, after Dr John Meyrick, one of the original doctors at Osler House. But now there is such a huge turnover these days they don’t have time to get to know you.’ Connie has become the face of a campaign to save her surgery. What are her chances of success? Those of you with long memories will recall that the late and unlamented Maldon & S. Chelmsford PCT wanted to close Dr Ashley Pain’s Danbury practice. The patients and staff mounted a ‘Save Our Surgery campaign and seemingly won the day. The next thing they knew, the new GP appointed by the PCT had merged the practice with the larger Lee House Surgery ... which, of course, was what the PCT had planned from the outset. One suspects Connie’s campaign will suffer the same fate given that small practices are under ever greater pressure to merge in one form or another. You may remember that the late and unlamented Mid Essex PCT awarded the contract for ‘The New Surgery’ to ‘The Practice Group’ despite applications from local surgeries/GPs to run it ...any one of which would have made a much better job of it (whilst saving the taxpayer £100’s of thousands.) Indeed South Woodham’s three remaining practice managers are still grumbling about the mess they’ve been left to clear up. The Mail goes into the background of the Harlow story under the headline: How Americans grabbed a slice of our NHS. Judge for yourselves how much is relevant to the situation in SWF. 21 HOW YOUR DIET CAN (MAYBE) HASTEN THE ONSET OF THE MENOPAUSE ... or delay it. The BBC reported this week on a study of 914 UK women, conducted by the University of Leeds which seemingly found that a diet rich in oily fish and peas and beans may delay natural menopause. It also suggested that a diet high in carbs could bring on an earlier menopause ... “eating lots of pasta and rice was associated with reaching menopause one-and-a-half years earlier than the average age of women in the UK of 51.” A diet high in legumes, which includes peas, beans, lentils and chickpeas, delayed menopause by one-and-a-half years, on average. The Beeb goes on to quote ‘experts’ who say many other factors, including genes, influence timing of the menopause ... and adds that “it’s not clear how big a contribution dietary choices might make and women should not worry about changing what they eat based on the findings.” The findings were published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health – and the study co-author Janet Cade, told the BBC that the age at which menopause begins can have “serious health implications” for some women. She said: “A clear understanding of how diet affects the start of natural menopause will be very beneficial to those who may already be at risk or have a family history of certain complications related to menopause.” Women who go through the menopause early are at increased risk of osteoporosis and heart disease, while women who go through it late are at increased risk of breast, womb, and ovarian cancers. The study is observational and cannot prove any cause – but, even so, you should ‘watch this space’ as it will spark further research. The article claims that “The decision to close the Osler House surgery in Harlow has its roots more than 4,000 miles away in the US. The surgery is part of The Practice Group – one of the largest GP providers in the UK with around 50 surgeries and health centres responsible for more than 200,000 patients. But despite dealing with more than a million NHS appointments a year, the Group’s major stakeholder is a multi-billion pound health insurance company called the Centene Corporation – based in St Louis, Missouri. Changes introduced by the Labour government in 2004, allowed companies to bid for short-term contracts with NHS clinical commissioning groups. Centene took advantage of this to buy into The Practice Group, later increasing its stake from 49 to 75 per cent in 2016. It means the company, listed on the New York Stock exchange, now has the final say over a number of GP surgeries in England, and can close them if they are not profitable. Its involvement has coincided with the closure of a number of surgeries by The Practice Group, often in areas of high deprivation where it is difficult to make a profit.” As I’ve mentioned before NHS England admits to saving some £180,000 a year due to the closure of ‘The Practice’ (on top of the huge chunk of dosh that was saved when the Clement’s House Practice was sold.) One suspects they look on it as recouping some of the money that was wasted by the bungling of its antecedent organisations – but, given that the profligate waste they presided over adversely affected South Woodham patients, shouldn’t we have some or all of our healthcare budget back as redress for the mistakes of the past? I hate cocaine dealers – always sticking their business into other people’s noses OVARIAN CANCER CASES ARE SET TO RISE says Paul Gallagher (again) in the i newspaper (again.) They’ll rise by 15 per cent in the UK over the next two decades, according to new figures ... and, you’ll be relieved to hear, this is largely due to the Dr John SOUTH WOODHAM FOCUS www.facebook.com/swfocus
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