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Issue 206 - November 2009 - e-mail edition
KINTYRE ON RECORD
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CONTENTS
- CARRADALE SURGERY NEWS - PATIENT SURVEY AND PATIENT GROUP AGM
 
- SADDELL and CARRADALE CHURCH GUILD- A LARGER TESCO PRESENCE- A NEW CREAMERY - MOON APOLOGY - SPLASH DOWN- KINTYRE INITIATIVE NOTES- DOORS OPEN DAYS IN KINTYRE- SEPTEMBER RAINFALL
 
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- CARRADALE - A FACTOR'S DIARY - Entries from December 1862 and June 1863- COMMUNITY COUNCIL CONSTITUTED- COMMUNITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS- EAST KINTYRE COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING - Tuesday, September 1, 2009- TIMBERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR  - I SEE TREES OF GREEN . . . . .- KINTYRE U3A - THE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE- NEW POLICE STATION OPEN- DUCKING and DIVING - THE CARRADALE DUCK RACE- CARRADALE GOLF CLUB - LADIES SECTION- TOWN HALL - KINTYRE INITIATIVE BRAIN STORMING
Carradale Surgery News
Patient survey and Patient Group AGM
 The Patient Group AGM will be held in Carradale Surgery on Tuesday 17th November at 7.00 pm. Registeredpatients are welcome to come along to this meeting. The patient group was formed a few years ago as a mechanismfor communication between the practice and its patients and is comprised of both patient and practicerepresentatives, who are elected at the AGM. The current patient members are: Ms J. Blount, Mr A. Briggs, Ms V.Cannell, Mrs J. Conley, Mrs M. Gosling, Mr J. Murphy.For a number of years the surgery has asked patients to participate in a satisfaction survey, the results of which havebeen published in a report available in the waiting room and also at the Patient Group AGM. Last year however,many patients also received a postal government survey about access to their GP. The government intend to repeatthis postal survey again this year, and as many patients felt ‘surveyed out’, we have decided not to repeat our ownsurgery survey for the time being.
Seasonal flu
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 pneumococcal immunisations and swine flu
 
 The surgery now has a supply of seasonal flu vaccine and has already commenced the annual autumn immunisationprogramme. This vaccine however does not protect patients against the H1N1 virus, ‘Swine flu’. As in previous years, patients who are aged 65 (by 01/04/2010) and over, or those who are in ‘at risk’ groups arebeing offered seasonal flu vaccine. ‘At risk’ groups include those with diabetes, chronic heart, kidney, neurological,or respiratory disease or those patients with immuno-suppression due to disease or treatment. Flu immunisation isalso being offered to those who care for someone who would be ‘at risk’ should that carer fall ill.It is also recommended that patients who are aged 65 and over should have a pneumococcal immunisation. Unlikethe flu vaccine, this does not require to be given every year. If you are in any of these groups and have not yet beeninvited for your seasonal flu and pneumococcal immunisation as appropriate, please contact the surgery to make anappointment.It is anticipated that the separate vaccine against ‘swine flu’ will become available towards the end of November.Once we receive this, we will be contacting patients who are in the priority categories identified for this vaccineprogramme. Although these categories overlap with some of the ‘at risk’ groups above, they do not correlate exactly.It is therefore possible that although you are usually offered seasonal flu immunisation, you may not be in one of theinitial priority groups for ‘swine flu’ immunisation. The ‘swine flu’ vaccine is being issued in batches of 10 doses. Once a batch is opened it requires to be used within afew hours. So that we do not waste vaccine, we will aim to set up specific immunisation-only clinic times for groupsof 10 patients. It will therefore be particularly important that you come at the time given to you. The practice continues to give the following advice regarding flu symptoms: If you have a fever/high temperature AND flu-like symptoms DO NOT COME TO THE SURGERY, but stay at home and telephone to getadvice/arrange the next steps to be taken. (This can also be done through NHS24 on 08454 242424).
 
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In the interests of infection control we have taken the decision to remove, toys, magazines and any other non-essentials from the waiting room for the time being. We have also provided hand gel which should be used by patients entering and leaving the surgery.If you wish further information on any of the above please contact Carradale Surgery on 01583 431376
SADDELL and CARRADALE CHURCH GUILD
 The first meeting of the new session on October the fifth was a talk by Cameron McNair of Grogport on ‘1000 yearsof Sacred Music’. Mr McNair shared his considerable knowledge and enthusiasm with a sizeable audience of Guildmembers and friends. The recordings used to illustrate the development of Church Music from an anonymousScottish ‘Qui elixas condiebat’ from about 1000 AD, sung by Capella Nova, to ‘Blessed is the man’ by PavelChesnokov who died in 1944, were chose to avoid the more commonly heard examples of specific musical periods.Cameron introduced each piece with just the right amount of information on the composer, the style of compositionand other influences of the era, making the presentation a most pleasurable experience. Especially appreciated werethe recordings of Russian liturgy, sung without musical accompaniment. A comprehensive programme withsuggestions for further listening was an added bonus. The evening ended with three ‘lucky programme’ draws forCDs kindly donated by the speaker. The next meeting of the Guild is on Monday 26
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October includes a slide show by Duncan Shaw of Skipness
 A LARGER TESCO PRESENCE
 The exhibition in the Aqualibrium Café on Tuesday 13th October provided an opportunity to see the extent of  Tesco’s provisional plans to improve their shopping facilities in Campbeltown. The company hopes to -• Provide a new improved Tesco store on the existing Campbeltown Creamery site at Witchburn Road• Part-fund a new, modern Creamery within Campbeltown• Help to secure the future of First Milk in the town - one of our suppliers• Reduce long journeys to Oban and elsewhere for shopping • Regenerate an industrial site• Create 200 new jobs• Offer more opportunities to our existing 90 employees
• Provide a multi-million pound investment in Campbeltown
 The illustrated pamphlet provided at the exhibition makes the following commitments -
Being A Green Grocer
 We are continuing our commitment to cut our carbon footprint in every area of our business. From big steps, likeaiming to halve our stores' carbon footprint by the end of 2020, compared to an equivalent store built in 2006, rightthrough to small steps, like using one label instead of two on our clothing lines, we are doing all we can to improveour green credentials. To help us meet these targets we are proposing the following environmental features at our new store inCampbeltown:
Combined Heat and Power
 A CHP unit to reduce the overall energy consumption of the store, by using the excess heat from the production of electricity for heating.
Natural Materials
Sustainably sourced timber frame and cladding will be used.
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