Are you a good listener? Do you have a passion for people? Do you want to empower people to improve their health and their social circumstances?
Becoming a Patient Care Coordinator is an opportunity to really help people, you will work alongside the practice nursing team, clinicians and staff to support their work in providing excellent care to our patients. You will be the first port of call for patients in helping them to understand their health condition and signposting them to other services or clinicians as necessary. This is your chance to make a real difference to people’s lives in North Dorset.
For further questions, please email : simone.yule@dorsetgp.nhs.uk
Or to apply, please see the below Job Description and complete the application form, emailing it to vicky.eaton@dorsetgp.nhs.uk
Are you a good listener? Do you have a passion for people? Do you want to empower people to improve their health and their social circumstances?
Becoming a Social Prescriber is an opportunity to really help people, whether they are lonely, struggling with money or housing issues, need more help understanding their health condition, or simply need someone to listen to them and understand them. This is your chance to make a real difference to people’s lives in North Dorset.
The Blackmore Vale Partnership are recruiting two Social Prescriber Support Workers who will be part of our well established and experienced Social Prescribing Team in North Dorset. One of these posts will have a focus on supporting digital health
For further questions, please email : simone.yule@dorsetgp.nhs.uk
Or to apply, please see the below Job Description and complete the application form, emailing it to vicky.eaton@dorsetgp.nhs.uk
We’re so excited to offer you the chance to win this beautiful set of Mary Berry tableware, in her new ‘English Country Garden’ pattern.
It feels like the most perfect competition to be running for Mother’s Day (and yes, okay, no one will win this in time for Mothering Sunday, but look at it – it’s a beautiful prize no matter when it arrives). And if you can’t wait, all products in the English Garden range are available from Sak home here.
The two large serving bowls (the robin is the same large size, don’t let my duff photoshop skill deceive you 😆), with the Agapanthus and the Robin patterns, are ideal for presenting salads, bread rolls or roast potatoes at large dinner events. Classically elegant, they’ll work on any table, and look good in any home or garden.
Please let us get weather good enough to eat in the garden again soon!
The set of 4 Mary Berry English Garden Flower Coasters are made from quality ceramic with felt backs, and feature illustrations and text of Agapanthus, Rose, Forget-Me-Not and Honeysuckle. Just so so pretty.
And we’re thrilled to be giving away the complete set to one lucky winner!
To be in with a chance to win, just answer the first four questions in the widget box below. There are more chances to win by completing the other entry options if you so wish – they’re entirely up to you! The closing date for this competition is 1st April 2021 and only entries received on or before that date can be included. The prize will go to the first randomly chosen entry. Good luck! (competition opens when the March issue of the magazine publishes on the 5th March 2021)
Mother’s Day is the 14th March this year – and we want to help you make it a little extra special.
But first – we know it’s a difficult day for some. If that’s you, head off now, this post isn’t for you. But before you go *gives your hand a squeeze* – I see you. Laura x
This year Mother’s Day is going to be a little bit different for us all – the latest in a long year of celebrations we can’t share with our loved ones. We won’t be able to take mum out for a special lunch, or all pop round to Granny with the family clutching bunches of daffodils for a big tea and cake morning.
Most of us won’t be able to even visit our mums on March 14.
So – we are asking you to send us your special messages to your mum, granny or step mum and we’ll publish them. All you have to do is fill in the form below and upload your message and even add a photograph if you like.
Deadline is midnight Tuesday 2nd, so be quick – use the form below to fill in your message. Go go go:
*form now closed. March issue is out on Friday the 5th*
Sad to report Great Dorset Steam Fair is cancelled for 2021 – see below for the reasons why (no guesses there… *looks hard at ‘Rona*), and what to do if you already have tickets that were carried forward from last year. Please do share:”
It has been confirmed that the 2021 Great Dorset Steam Fair scheduled to take place from Thursday 26th to Bank Holiday Monday 30th August has been cancelled.Steam Fair Managing Director Martin Oliver says: “We have continued to closely monitor the Coronavirus pandemic over the past few weeks and whilst the ongoing vaccination programme is progressing well and should be commended, it has nevertheless become increasingly evident (as in 2020) that it is unfeasible to run the GDSF event again this year. This has been a very difficult decision to make, however, as our pre-planning for the 2021 event has now reached a critical stage (with March being the key deadline for confirming major contractors), we have no other option than to make the decision now to not continue with the event this year and focus our efforts on the 2022 show.Despite the Prime Minister’s Speech last night and the Government’s roadmap to ease Covid-19 Restrictions, the ongoing problem the GDSF Board of Directors face is that of uncertainty as to what statutory Covid restrictions will still be in place in August for large scale, high-capacity mass gatherings like the GDSF. The Prime Minister also stressed that he is being driven by data and not dates and therefore the timeline of the roadmap is not guaranteed. Sadly, the risk is simply too great for us to run this year, it would be an enormous health & safety, operational and financial gamble which we cannot justify. Our priority therefore has to be to safeguard the viability of the event for future years and by not risking running in 2021, this will enable us to return in 2022. Ultimately, the safety and wellbeing of our visitors, exhibitors, traders, staff and contractors is always our primary concern, combined with the effect to the local area, towns, parishes and residents. We are also very conscious of the impact that the event would have on the NHS, Emergency Services, Local Authority and Partner Agencies, and we do not want to unnecessarily stretch their resources any further this year. We offer our sincere apologies to all involved and I can assure you that we at the GDSF are equally as disheartened and disappointed that for a second consecutive year there will be no show. However, not running the show again this year is the right and responsible thing to do on all counts”.All efforts will now turn to putting on a fabulous show in 2022, the dates of which are Thursday 25th August to Bank Holiday Monday 29th August. Tickets and camping bookings for 2022 will be on sale by Christmas this year. In the meantime, one bit of good news for 2021 – Steam Fair FM, the show’s own radio station, will once again be broadcasting nationwide online throughout the original 2021 show period (up to bank holiday Monday), with lots of news about the show, more archive recordings, big prize competitions, and dedications for supporters, friends and family. For visitors who previously booked advance tickets and camping for the (cancelled) 2020 event and have not hitherto requested refunds, these bookings will remain valid for the GDSF event in 2022, this will happen automatically. Alternatively, should a refund now be preferred for the 2020 show, please contact us at enquiries@gdsf.co.uk. quoting the Order Number and this will be arranged this as soon as possible.”
Sylvia Spooner (née Blest) passed away peacefully in her 101st year on Sunday, January 31st in Blandford. The family thank the exceptional staff at Whitecliffe House Nursing and Residential Care Home for caring for Sylvia over the last two years and, in particular, the care and nursing professionals who kept her company last Sunday morning.
She was deeply loved by her husband, Arthur, and her two sons and her daughters-in-law, Charles, Edward, Jane Gall and Jane Hadsel. She will be deeply missed by her grandchildren Rosie, Amy, William and Katharine; wider family; and her many good friends especially in the Tarrant Valley and the Blandford area. Sylvia worked for Military Intelligence in WWII —she was one of the original ‘Blenheim Girls’, the secretarial and operational staff of internal intelligence (MI5). Part of ‘D’ section, responsible for gathering intelligence on attempts to disrupt transport.
‘My mother’s office was originally a prisoner’s cell in Wormwood Scrubs,’ says son Edward, ‘but during the Blitz was moved to Blenheim Palace. After the war she worked in Ghana, West Africa.
A private funeral service will be held at Salisbury Crematorium on Wednesday, February 24th. at 11:00 a.m. with a webcast available; please contact Lesley Shand Funeral Service, Blandford (01258 453425) for more details. Flowers can be sent directly or via Florabunda or Sweetpea to Lesley Shand to take to Salisbury.
A service in St. Mary’s, Tarrant Gunville and a Celebration of her Life will be held when possible.
“At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember her”.
“…Why is he here? Why is my dog lying at my feet in the shape of a croissant as I write this? How have I come to cherish his warm but lightly offensive pungency? How has his fish breath become a topic of humour when friends call round for dinner? Why do I shell out more than a thousand pounds each year to pay for his insurance? And why do I love him so much? Ludo is not a special dog. He’s just another Labrador retriever, one of approximately 500,000 in the UK (he’d be one in a million in the United States, the most popular breed in both countries). Ludo has a lot in common with all these dogs. He loves to play ball; obviously he’s an expert retriever. He could eat all the food in the universe and leave nothing for the other dogs. He is prone to hip dys- plasia. He looks particularly attractive on a plush bed in a centrally heated house very far from the Newfoundland home of his ancestors. But of course Ludo is a unique animal to me and the rest of his human family. He is now an elderly gentleman aged twelve and a half, and we would do almost anything to ensure his continued happiness. We willingly get drenched as he tries to detect every smell on Hampstead Heath. We schedule our days around his needs his meal times, his walks, the delivery of his life-saving medication (he has epilepsy, poor love). We spend a bizarrely large amount of our disposable income on him, and he never sends a card of thanks. (If you’re reading this at a point where you’re thinking of getting your first dog and consider a purchase price of £1,500 a little dear, then all I can say about the costs to come vets, food, dog-sitting, accoutrements both essential and superfluous is ha ha ha.) ” (excerpt from Dog’s Best Friend by Simon Garfield)
One of the most welcome changes to lockdown is being able to get out and discover the countryside on your doorstep, often accompanied by a dog. So I thought it would be interesting to discover how this relationship began. Simon Garfield has done just that. One of the first words we learn. Perhaps the best friend we’ll have. An animal so much part of our lives that we speak to it like a child and spend small fortunes on its wellbeing and wardrobe. DOG’S BEST FRIEND investigates this unique bond by revisiting some of the most important milestones in our shared journey. It begins with the earliest visual evidence on ancient rock art, and ends at the laboratory that sequenced the first dog genome. En route we encounter the first Labradoodle in Australia, a misguidedly loyal Akita in Japan, an ill-fated Poodle trainer in the United States, and a hilariously disobedient Romanian rescue dog named Kratu at the Birmingham NEC. We will also meet Corgis and Dorgis at the Palace, the weightless mutniks of the Soviet space programme, a Dalmatian who impersonates Hitler, and an owner who claims his Border Collie can remember the names of more than a thousand soft toys.
DOG’S BEST FRIEND is as entertaining as it is informative, as eccentric as it is erudite, and all told with Simon Garfield’s irrepressible gift for witty and insightful storytelling. Wayne
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