• Health

    Message from The Health Centre

    3 April 2020 / 0 Comments

    This lovely image is from Sandy Nightingale Please be aware of the following scam: do not give out your personal details. PHE will always write to you if they have been unable to contact you if they needed to! ‘Calls from somebody claiming to be from Public Health England, asking residents if they had received their letter from the government and then asking if they have support from family and friends, etc. and trying to obtain personal details’

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  • Community Support,  DCC and Teignbridge Council,  Health,  Uncategorised

    Devon County Council Updates

    2 April 2020 / 0 Comments

    Produced every day these are lengthy screeds, mainly repeating what they have told us already, but you may want to check in every so often. Type in Devon County Council and follow the links. Here are today’s main points: Devon needs you: get a job in health and social care Devon County Council are encouraging job seekers, students back from university, college leavers and former care and health staff to help support the county’s most vulnerable. The coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) means there’s an even greater demand for Healthcare Assistants in residential homes, people’s own homes and hospitals in Devon so temporary and permanent workers are needed to fill a variety…

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  • Community Support,  Health,  Uncategorised

    Devon Air Ambulance Grounded

    2 April 2020 / 0 Comments

    Devon Air Ambulance will temporarily be responding to patients solely by critical care car, but its critical care paramedics will still be able to respond to patients with their specialist skills and equipment. Heléna Holt, CEO, explains:   Standing down our aircraft has been a very difficult decision for us to make but one we have had to take in order to protect all of our crew.  She added: “Whilst the paramedics can wear personal protective equipment (PPE) when treating and conveying patients, our pilots cannot operate the aircraft wearing PPE. They also cannot maintain a 2-metre distance between them and the patient. As we have no way of knowing…

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  • Food,  St John's Church

    Food Banks

    1 April 2020 / 1 Comment

    The food bank deposit box is now located in the church porch. The food bank are aware and items will be collected from there so please do leave whatever you can spare or donate money online. This is the current advice being issued by the Exeter Diocese How can we best help at the moment? Whilst money is always welcome, donations of food and other requested items are particularly wanted, where possible. This is for two reasons: 1) Many supermarkets are limiting how much food people can buy – including even volunteers buying for food banks. 2) As more of us are self-isolating and buying food online, donations in supermarket…

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  • Community Support,  Social event

    Meet-ups On-line

    1 April 2020 / 0 Comments

    Tracy Small has initiated a new version of our Pub in Exile meetings at 6pm every Tuesday. The first one was last night using Zoom, a natty little program, free to use, which you can download onto your desktop. You may want to download it and try it out with a friend or relative so that you can take part next week. PIE (Pub in Exile) – Tuesdays, 6pm click this link:  https://us04web.zoom.us/j/160207971Please note, the  meeting will shut down after 40 minutes. You simply click on the link address above and can join the group. I’ll remind folks a bit nearer the time, so that you have time to do your hair…

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