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32 The Parish Magazine - January 2024 Please mention The Parish Magazine when responding to advertisements 26 The Parish Magazine - January 2024 Please mention The Parish Magazine when responding to advertisements Would you like to help at the St John and St Stephen’s Child Contact Centre Reading? • We are a volunteer run organisation providing a • safe place for children from separated families to • re-connect with their non-resident parent and relatives. • Volunteers work as a small team to ensure a safe, • friendly and calm environment for contact, • always putting children’s needs first. • Each team is on duty roughly every • 6 weeks on a Sunday afternoon. • Volunteers o Help to prepare the Centre before children arrive. o Welcome families and show them around. o Listen to adults and children without judging, o advising or taking sides. o Tidy up once the Centre is closed. o Report any concerns to your Team Leader o • We offer training and support • and will help you arrange your DBS check. INTERESTED? Check out our website https://readingchildcontactcentre.org.uk Download our volunteer leaflet for further information E mail us at hello@readingchildcontactcentre.org.uk Or ring us on 0785 835 0424 and leave a message with your contact number We are also looking for a Team Leader, someone with experience in the field of safeguarding and child protection. This could be suitable for an existing volunteer or someone who wants to gain the necessary experience to take on this role.
FROM PAGE 31 HEALTH — 2 Dr Simon Ruffle writes . . . . . . NHS v the World that the we get the best ‘bang for our buck.’ One area where our more frugal approach to health spending is in administration. In the USA 8.9% of health spending is administrative, it is 1.9% in the UK, with Japan, Sweden, Italy, Greece, and Finland being lower. It is always an easy trope to blame the managers. Since Covid, our outcomes for potentially avoidable deaths in terms of heart attacks and stroke has fallen in comparison, our hospital admissions for Asthma and COPD is higher although we’re pretty good at managing diabetes and heart failure with a lower percentage of patients requiring admission. WHERE ARE WE LEFT? The NHS is performing okay with the level of staff equipment and finance that it has. Reform of the NHS has been constant with 2012 being a massive (behind the scenes) shake up. These reforms and austerity had not left the NHS in a stable position to cope with the Covid crisis and we have seen our performance levels fall since then as there was no ‘reserve.’ Ask any business, it is people that are the most important components for a successful business. While we lose our professionals, replace them with cheaper less qualified people, allow our estates and equipment to age we cannot expect a recovery in patient experience and performance but the Kings Fund and OECD show us we are not spending enough per patient despite the overall spending being higher now than it was in 2010. THE CHALLENGE The health secretary’s challenge is enormous but looking to change our systems or add new styles of health provision form other models is not the way forward until we supply the scanners, staff and resources to the cost effective system we have already. HOME AND GARDEN Strawberries provide 100% of the recommended daily vitamin C amount in a single cup serving, and they also contain heart-healthy nutrients such as folate, potassium, fibre, phytosterols and polyphenols. A recent study has found that eating about eight of them a day for 3 months can improve your mood, help your memory, and lower any symptoms of depression. The study was carried out at the University of Cincinnati’s Academic Health Centre. Perhaps it is the things that you eat with your strawberries that need your attention? Potatoes have also been a target of the 'anti-carb' brigade for probably long enough. An affordable staple food for centuries, they have fallen out of favour in recent times, amid the trend for low-carb diets. 'The humble potato has been given a bad rap,' says Dr Duane Mellor, If you like colourful ceramics such as this lily vase, then you are probably familiar with the work of Clarice Cliff. Her glowingly vibrant plates, cups, teapots, and vases are world famous – and still loved. The Parish Magazine - January 2024 33 Don't forget to include potatoes and strawberries in your garden plans for 2024! Hxdbzxy, dreamstime.com Julia Sudnitskaya, dreamstime.com Strawberries and potatoes are probably better for you than you think, so don't forget to included them in your garden this year. a senior teaching fellow at Aston Medical School in Birmingham. 'The truth is that potatoes contain a lot of vitamins and other nutrients that are important for good health.' he added. These include vitamin C, vitamin B6, potassium, and choline. Potatoes also contain fibre, including resistant starch. This helps to feed the gut bacteria, which in turn has a wide range of health benefits. Both the skin and the flesh of potatoes are good for you. The skin provides fibre, and the flesh contains most of the vitamins and minerals. So, the healthiest way to cook potatoes is to boil or bake them in their skins. And like strawberries, it is probably the 'extras' such as butter and oil that you need to be more mindful about? Does Clarice Cliff have a place in your home? Clarice was born 125 years ago this month, on 20 January 1899, in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent. Her father worked in an iron foundry, and her mother washed clothes to help feed their seven children. Clarice left school at 13 to work in the potteries, a job she enjoyed so much that, at 17, she joined A J Wilkinson in Newport, Burslem, to gain more experience. Soon she was modelling figurines and vases, keeping pattern books, and learning to hand-paint ware. She died in 1972 and some of her work can demand very high prices. The world record for a piece of Clarice Cliff is held by Christie’s in London, who in 2004 sold an 18-inch ‘charger’ in the May Avenue pattern for £39,500. Wirestock, dreamstime.com
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