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Health Watch Windsor & Maidenhead asked Windsor, Ascot, and Maidenhead residents to say What Matters Most to you when it comes to health and social care services. The What Matters Most survey ran from March to May 2021 and 244 people shared their views and experiences . A big thank you to everyone who participated and helped to promote our survey.
Healthwatch WAM is delighted to now publish the full report which highlights the key issues which Windsor, Ascot, and Maidenhead residents are concerned about when it comes to health and social care.
We asked which services people thought Healthwatch WAM should be focusing on in the coming year and the results were:
- 32% said GP services
- 23% said improving overall access to health and social care services
- 17% said Mental Health services
As a result of what we have heard from this campaign, Healthwatch WAM will now begin work on setting our annual work priorities based on what residents have told us.
The report will be shared widely with all key stakeholders in the local area to make sure the voices of everyone who took part are heard. If you would like to pass this report on to others, please could you direct them to the above link where possible. This will allow analysis of website traffic.
Results will be posted on social media, and in the Healthwatch newsletter, from Wednesday 16th June. Please feel free to share any of these posts with your followers. Our social media accounts are:
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THE local Samaritans’ branch is delighted to announce the appointment of a new director to manage the branch.
The new post-holder, Barbara Denyer, was nominated by her fellow 135 listening and support volunteers to lead the team of Bracknell, Wokingham, Ascot & Districts, which is based at Mount Pleasant, Larges Lane, Bracknell. Angela started her new three-year role on 15 March.
With 19 years’ experience as a Samaritans’ listening volunteer answering calls from people struggling to cope, Barbara has also over the years taken on the responsibilities of mentoring, training, shift leading, giving talks, publicity and establishing links with other local organisations.
Read more: New Branch Director for Local Samaritans
On Monday 1st March, we held our first-ever Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals (ASPH) New Year’s Honours List awards ceremony. Individuals and teams at the Trust were recognised for their hard work and effort with awards in categories such as ‘Passion for Excellence’, ‘Unsung Hero’ and ‘Inspiring Leader’, and all of which were nominated by colleagues at ASPH.
The winners were presented with their awards and certificates in the vaccination hub at Chertsey House, St Peter’s Hospital on Monday afternoon at a socially distanced ceremony.
The award winners were:...
As part of the roadmap to leave lockdown, Charters School in Sunningdale is preparing to welcome its students back to school after offering mass Covid19 testing for staff and students.
Two testing centres have been created in the main hall and gymnasium to enable the school to carry out testing for two year-group bubbles per day. Parents have been sent links to book individual time slots for their children. Year 11 and Sixth Form students will be tested on Monday 8th March and those receiving a negative result will return to the classrooms the following day. Years 10 and 9 will be tested on Tuesday 9th, with those in Years 7 & 8 taking their tests on Wednesday 10th.
Read more: Charters to Welcome Students Back After Mass Testing
Up to date information can be found on each Practice website: Latest News : Ascot Medical Centre Brook House.pdf (greenmeadowssurgery.co.uk)
Ascot Medical Centre and Green Meadows Surgery will both be moving to a modern, fully refurbished building located at the Heatherwood Hospital site, called Brook House in Spring 2021.
The new premises at Brook House, Heatherwood Hospital, forms part of the wider Ascot Plan which is to modernise primary and community care for local residents over the coming years and continue to improve on the health outcomes for local people.
Dr Andrew Fanning, Senior Partner at Green Meadows Surgery, said: “Whilst many projects may have been impacted by Covid-19, we are really pleased to share that we have been able to safely progress with the construction.
“We are very much looking forward to the move to the new premises expected be in Spring 2021.
We will continue to keep our website up to date on the date for when we will start to provide our services from the new site.”
Dr Edward Williams, Senior Partner at Ascot Medical Centre, said: “I would like to reassure patients that the two practices are not merging. We are co-locating and will be based at the same premises Brook House on the Heatherwood Hospital site. However, both practices anticipate closer working arrangements to benefit the population of Ascot through sharing skills and a range of services.
“Co-locating the two practices will enable multiple professional teams to work together resulting in better outcomes for our patients. It is essential to reducing patients’ admission to hospital, improving care co-ordination, providing care closer to patients, and increasing self-management with patients and carers.
Ascot Medical Centre is currently based in the acute hospital site at Heatherwood which is being completely redeveloped by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT), and Green Meadows surgery is situated in Winkfield Road, Ascot. Both are not sustainable to meet future needs of integrated primary care.
The new facilities within the premise will ensure treatment and consultation rooms are suitable for all patients and meet criteria outlined in HBNs (Health Building Notes) DD (Disability Discrimination Act), which is a requirement for all new build primary care premises.
Both practices have issued an FAQ update for patients on their websites. For more information, visit Ascot Medical Centre or Green Meadows Surgery
www.greenmeadowssurgery.co.uk www.ascotmedicalcentre.nhs.uk
Ascot Medical Centre & Green Meadows Move to New Building
CLICK HERE to see latest photos of new Heatherwood Hospital
Brook House is on the Heatherwood Hospital site and can be accessed via the new roundabout on Kings Ride.
The new address is: Ascot Medical Centre, Brook House, Heatherwood Hospital, Brook Avenue, Ascot, SL5 7GB
Patients will still be able to use the current telephone numbers and websites to contact both practices. There is parking at Brook House which is free for patients. Patients will need to collect a patient parking permit from the reception desk.
Wildlife in Ascot | ascot.wildlife@gmail.com
During this last year with the periods of lock-down people have become much more conscious of wildlife and nature. The healing properties of nature have been expressed on television and in literature as well as experienced by many. As people have escaped the confines of their homes for exercise outside, they have been able to begin to embrace and become curious about the world they find outside in their area.
For local wildlife charities such as Wildlife in Ascot, this time has been a strange one as we usually hold events for people to have some social time together as we learn more about our natural world. Clearly, with the Covid pandemic, that has not been possible. The need to support wildlife is as important as ever and we are keen to support this resurgence of interest so we have taken the opportunity to push forward on a couple of projects.
One of our Trustees ran a fundraising event for Wildlife in Ascot in 2019 and found that many local residents were not sure they knew which birds and mammals live around them here and so the idea of writing a booklet, specifically aimed at describing creatures found in our immediate area, was born. The booklet, “Wildlife in Ascot - Who shares your garden?” has 40 pages of information with local colour photographs and original drawings. It is designed to start people off on a journey of discovery. We hope the information given is useful to identify animals and also as a guide on how to help our local wildlife. We hope that it will be a fun read and easily understood by everyone aged 8 to 80.
These booklets are available to see and purchase for £4 from Chapmans in Sunninghill.
Read more: Wildlife in Ascot Booklet | Available Now at Chapmans | Sunninghill
Local sports author, Harry Harris has published his personal perspective on Diego Maradona
The death of Diego Maradona in November 2020 shocked the football world but he left behind a unique legacy following a playing career packed with amazing moments on the pitch and controversy off it.
Award-winning football journalist Harry Harris gives his personal perspective on Maradona's life story as one of only a few British writers to have been granted access to arguably the world's greatest ever player.
He is helped by World Cup winner Ossie Ardiles who was a close friend of Diego's for most of his life having first seen the boy wonder at close quarters performing football tricks in the warm-up at an international match in 1975 before Diego became a regular in the Argentina side. Harry has captured Ossie's personal recollections of his close friend in graphic detail, and has also compiled a selection of all the worldwide tributes that poured in after his death.
As the Daily Mirror chief football writer and one of the most prominent sports journalists of his generation, Harris followed Diego's career with first-hand knowledge and experience. He was present in the Azteca stadium when Maradona scored the most controversial and then the greatest goal in World Cup history and was also at the press conference in Dallas in 1994 following a positive drug test.
Harry is one of the few global journalists afforded a one-to-one interview with Diego and he gives an account of the remarkable and incredible personal circumstances surrounding that exclusive interview.
CLICK on the link for more, on Harry Harris's book 'Red Card to Racism'
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Great turn out for the development of the new Kiki Bistro in Sunningdale replacing Pazzia with Glenn Hoddle (England, Spurs, Chelsea), Tony Woodcock (Arsenal, Nottingham Forest, Cologne) and Jimmy Carter (Arsenal, Liverpool, Millwall)
attending to help local Sunningdale author Harry Harris to launch his latest book “the Greatest Goalscorers”. Laithwaites provided the champagne reception, so thanks to Paul at Virginia Water, and numerous raffle items, along with Sunningdale Dental, ( Dr Dharmesh Barot attended the popular event) with the monies raised for the charity Chain of Hope who attending with the football legends drawing their hearts to be auctioned for the charity at the Gala Ball in November. Thanks to Mark his wonderful hospitality as Kiki continues to evolve into a destination of choice for Berkshire residents.