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Hillingdon Community Voice

The latest H4All newsletter can be read at

https://www.h4all.org.uk/_files/ugd/68f19f_f8045cf980954785a96bf2982bfd16e4.pdf

Four-day junior doctors strike will start on 11 April

From 7am on Tuesday 11 April to 7am on Saturday 15 April, doctors at many NHS Trusts will be on strike, including The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. NHS services will be under a huge amount of pressure, so it is important for our residents to know where to go if they need help during this time.

Junior doctors make up almost 50% of all NHS doctors, and play a vital role in providing care for patients. During the four-day strike, hospitals will be doing everything they can to keep disruption to a minimum, prioritising patients who need urgent and emergency care.

Planned tests and hospital appointments may be changed or rearranged and we are keen to get this message out to the residents of Hillingdon.

For patients that have an appointment next week: If you have not been contacted, please attend your appointment as planned. The NHS will contact you if your appointment needs to be rescheduled due to strike action. Your care will not be stopped, but it may be delayed.

For non-emergency health needs, there are alternative NHS services available that can help get you the care you need:

NHS 111: Fully trained health professionals are available, 24/7, to help if you need medical help or advice, or you are unsure about whether you should go to hospital. You can contact NHS 111 online, or by calling 111.

Your GP: The majority of practices in north west London will remain open during the strike, though many will be under increased pressure. Do continue to attend your GP and dental appointments unless you have been contacted and told otherwise.

It is important that patients who do need urgent medical care still continue to come forward, especially in emergency and life-threatening cases.

By doing what you can to look after yourselves and others, and checking in on vulnerable family members and neighbours, you can help us make sure that the doctors who are on duty can provide care to patients who need it most.

Video: Message for the public about the upcoming industrial action

Communications and Engagement

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

UK Harvest

UK Harvest are a charity on a mission to Nourish Our Nation; protecting the environment by rescuing good quality food destined for landfill and educating on nutrition, cookery skills, reducing food waste in the home and more recently energy efficient cooking skills using a microwave, slow cooker and air fryer.

We are offering free money-saving, waste preventing, online cookery sessions that could benefit you. These are fun-filled live cook-alongs on Zoom and if it isn’t possible for someone to join the online sessions, if they register then we will send them the recording of the session. We also have a range of free resources available to on our website and on our UKHarvest Youtube channel, as well as recipes such as:

Chilli Chicken Casserole Cook-along 20-3-23

Tesco Nourished (6)

Tesco Nourished (8)

This project has been funded by Tesco Community Grants and is being made available throughout the country.

Our team of professional chefs, qualified nutritionists, experienced teachers, and food waste experts have developed these sessions to be both engaging and educational.

Full details of the sessions and more information can be found now on our event page here: www.ukharvest.org.uk/nourished

The sessions coming up that could be of interest.

SESSION 2 – Cook-A-Thon Weds 29^th March 10am-8pm (Live on our Youtube Channel)

There will be 2 x cook-a-long sessions and special guest talks throughout the day.

Food & Fuel Live Cook-athon (School’s Session) Tickets, Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite

Food & Fuel Live Cook-athon (Family’s Session) Tickets, Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite

Topics throughout the day will include:

Food & mood – how what we eat can help to shape our day/wellbeing

Physical fitness & eating clean

Energy efficient cooking. – air fryers

Feed 4 vegan food for the family for a fiver

Shopping effectively & efficiently

Community food hubs

Cooking what we have Ready steady cook style challenge (with visiting chef)

Finishing with a loving your leftovers session – cooking with those bits leftover, being creative and preventing waste.

SESSION 3 Cook-A-Long

Cook with us Tickets, Mon 24 Apr 2023 at 14:00 | Eventbrite

kind regards,

Donna Martin
Community Engagement Manager/Fundraising
UKHarvest

Centre of excellence for inpatient orthopaedic surgery in north-west London gets the go-ahead

The proposal to bring together most routine inpatient orthopaedic surgery in north-west London in a new centre of excellence at Central Middlesex Hospital was approved today (Tuesday 21 March) by NHS North West London, the sector’s integrated care board.

The proposal incorporates feedback from a 13-week public consultation that closed earlier this year involving almost 2,000 people.

The North-West London Acute Provider Collaborative, made up of the sector’s four acute NHS trusts, developed the proposal to improve quality and reduce long waiting times, primarily for hip and knee replacements.

As well as feedback from the public consultation, the proposal reflects feedback and guidance from the London Clinical Senate, the North-West London Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee and the Mayor of London (who commissioned the Nuffield Trust to assess the proposal against his six tests for major NHS service change). The proposal is set out in a ‘decision making business case’ that has been published on the Collaborative website, www.nwl-acute-provider-collaborative.nhs.uk/publications.

Please go to our Trust news channel for the full report.

Communications and Engagement
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Childhood Immunisation Catch Up Campaign

We all want to keep children safe and protected from serious illness. This is why we are asking you to support a focus on imploring parents in the community to make sure their child is up to date on their routine vaccinations.

Vaccination rates have been falling in London, which was further exacerbated during the pandemic. We need to maintain a high level of vaccine uptake across the population to reduce the risk of outbreaks and the potentially serious impacts on children’s health.

MMR is a key vaccination programme that has reduced the spread of measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) which can develop into life-threatening illnesses such as meningitis and pneumonia.

Any children in London who are not up to date with their routine vaccinations can get a catch-up dose via their GP to ensure they are fully protected.
Continue reading “Childhood Immunisation Catch Up Campaign”

Update on NHS proposal to improve orthopaedic surgery in north-west London

Almost 2,000 patients and local people have taken part in a 14-week public consultation on a proposal to develop a centre of excellence for inpatient orthopaedic surgery at Central Middlesex Hospital, Park Royal.

The North-West London Acute provider Collaborative, made up of the four acute NHS trusts in north-west London have proposed bringing together most of their routine, inpatient orthopaedic surgery – primarily hip and knee replacements – into a dedicated site completely separated from emergency care services.

The trusts, in partnership with the integrated care board for North-West London, have been inviting patients and the public to share their views on this proposal during the consultation period, which closed on 20 January 2023. An evaluation of the responses written by the independent research agency Verve Communications has been published and will now be used to inform next steps.

A total of 1,959 people participated in the consultation. Overall, participants thought that the proposal for an elective orthopaedic centre for most routine surgery was a good idea and hoped that it would help to reduce waiting times for patients, while there were some people who would prefer to have all their treatment at their local hospitals for convenience.

The consultation report is available online or, on request from the trusts, in a range of accessible formats, provides a detailed breakdown of the consultation activities and feedback, including by borough.

Communications and Engagement
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust