Community Support

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    Keep in Touch with Devon County Council

    7 April 2020 / 0 Comments

    Today’s Update Follow any of the links above for up to date news from DCC. Find and follow DCC updates on Facebook @OfficialDevonCC, Twitter @DevonCC, Instagram @devoncountycouncil or LinkedIn @devon-county-council for regular coronavirus updates, and to join the #WeAreDevon community. Particularly interesting is a section on Sharing Your Symptoms – let’s hope we don’t need this. Share your symptoms with the NHS status trackerA new Coronavirus Status Checker that will help the NHS coordinate its response and build up additional data on the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has been launched.People with potential coronavirus symptoms are being asked to complete the status checker and answer a short series of questions, which will tell the NHS about their experience.It is open…

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    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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    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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    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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  • Community Support,  DCC and Teignbridge Council,  Health

    Transport for Key Workers

    30 March 2020 / 0 Comments

    Over the last week, bus companies have lost up to 90% of their passengers, leading many to drastically reduce services. Stagecoach today are implementing reductions across their network, details of which appear on their web site.https://www.stagecoachbus.com/coronavirus We do not have sufficient information to know the make-up of the 10% (and falling) remaining passengers. Some will be key workers needing to travel. There may be other essential purposes, whilst some may be travelling against official advice. Some may be best assisted by referral to the many community initiatives, information on which is available locally or on-line through web sites, Facebook etc. In an effort to cater for key workers, the County Council is…

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