theWI Adderbury & District WI – Facebook Posting Wednesday 10th August – WI Gardening at KHH last week
Adderbury & District WI added 4 new photos. 12 mins · Dear Members, WI Gardening at Katharine House Hospice last Thursday for planting out new 2016 seeds seedlings into the second small bed…then collecting seed heads for drying for future plants… Healthy seedlings – all ready for planting and new planted seedlings. Corn chamomile seed head gathering for drying and future use. I’m looking forward to daily watering to keep the seedlings happy xxx Boost post LikeShow More Reactions Comment Share Top comments Comments Write a comment… Adderbury & District WIOur new seedlings are surviving very well xxx Margaret...
Read MoretheWI – Adderbury & District WI – Facebook Posting – Monday, 8th August 2016
Monday 8th August 2016 Dear Members, We were at the BBC Countryfile Show at Blenheim yesterday, thanks to Oxford WI Federation and it was a most exciting day. We watched the tractors exhibition, visited the Picnic Tree and shared our “Tree” stories and visited the Woodland Trust stand. They had a wonderful Tree poster on display and it is to be hoped this poster will be included in the Welcome Pack to new members soon. The Show provided a wonderful array of gorgeous shopping outlets, a funfair with the most brilliant Helter-Skelter ride, Tractor Ted tractors for the children to clamber over and The Archers Team were there with a discussion group to the delight of avid fans. Glorious food supplies were available everywhere,water sports, country-craft and country-side activity stands, the John Craven Arms Pub was open for thirsty visitors, crowds and crowds of people and the sun shone warm and brightly. Even the brisk breeze failed to mar a brilliant day. xxx Comments Write a comment… Adderbury & District WI Next year’s event is already in hand ! xxx Like · Reply · 5 mins...
Read MoretheWI – Adderbury & District WI – Facebook Posting – Monday, 8th August 2016 – Keep the Horton General
Monday 8th August 2016 – Facebook posting – Hands off our Horton Dear Members, #HandsoffourHorton are staging a protest at Horton General Hospital on Sunday, 21st August at 10.30am – ‘Hands around our Horton’- when friends and campaigners will join hands around the Horton to protest the planned cuts. Victoria Prentis will be there to support our action. Margaret Halstead PS…. The protest group – Keep the Horton General – were at Banbury Market on Saturday, selling T Shirts to raise much needed funds. They sold 100 T’s and took orders for more. They are doing a grand...
Read MoretheWI – Adderbury & District WI – Horton Threats 2016.pdf – This Could Be Our Biggest Fight Ever – August 2016
Today at 5.50pm 2nd August 2016 Dear Members, News from Diane and Enid – HORTON THREATS.2016.pdf – News of OUHFT “emerging options” for the Horton General Hospital. see link:- http://www.cherwell.gov.uk/media/pdf/n/s/CPN Agenda Meeting doc 140616.pdf) SAVE OUR HORTON This link is also on our WI Web CHERWELL.GOV.UK The link is not connecting properly for the document sent by Enid – THIS COULD BE OUR BIGGEST FIGHT EVER – Horton Threats.2016.pdf – so I am attaching it here for you to see… THIS COULD BE OUR BIGGEST FIGHT EVER Consultant-led maternity, 24/7 Childrens Ward, Special Care Baby Unit, A&E, medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, and the Critical Care Unit are all under threat. See the Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust’s “emerging options” link:http://www.cherwell.gov.uk/media/pdf/n/s/CPN_Agenda___Meeting_doc_140616.pdf) The OUHFT presented their “emerging options” for the Horton General Hospital at the Community Partnership Network meeting held at Cherwell District Council on 14 June. They said all options will need to be assessed for activity, workforce, finance and estates (condition of existing buildings) and there will be a full consultation in October 2016. Option 1 Option 1 is what we currently have at the Horton General Hospital. The OUHFT stated “Option 1 is the status quo but if we thought that was adequate ….. we would not be doing this exercise”. Option 2 Under Option 2, the Horton General Hospital would: Lose A&E – downgraded to GP urgent care and Minor Injuries Unit Lose Acute Stroke and Rehab – downgraded to Rehab and Early Supported Discharge Surgery (elective day cases) – would be limited to 8am to 3pm Lose Surgery – elective inpatients Lose elective orthopaedic inpatients Medicine – elective day cases – would be limited to 8am – 3pm Lose Medicine – elective inpatients Medicine – non-elective inpatients – inpatient ward would be downgraded to frail assessment unit Lose Critical adult care (Critical Care Unit) Lose consultant-led Maternity – downgraded to Midwife Led Unit (ie no consultants or anaesthetists allocated to maternity) Lose Special Care Baby Unit Paediatric inpatients downgraded to paediatric observation and assessment unit (8-10) (We think this means open 8am to 10pm, ie no overnight patients) Option 3 Under Option 3, Banbury’s Horton General Hospital would see: A&E retained as an “integrated urgent care centre with ED function + out of hours + minor injury unit + walk in centre”; Lose Acute Stroke and Rehab – downgraded to Rehab and Early Supported Discharge Adult Critical Care – retained but in the form of a High Dependency Unit on-site + “e-ICU” Lose consultant-led Maternity – downgraded to Midwife Led Unit (ie no consultants or anaesthetists allocated to maternity) Lose Special Care Baby Unit Paediatric inpatients downgraded to “paediatric observation and assessment unit, assessment and clinical decision unit (24/7)” Keep the Horton General campaigners, midwives, SCBU staff and members of the public have publicly come out against the options. A survey of GPs in the area, by former practice manager Andrew McHugh, demonstrated that they were “overwhelmingly against the MLU on the grounds of safety”. “What can I do?” The MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do is to write to the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group via your GP. This is because the OCCG / GPs are in charge of commissioning services. Tell them how much we need the full services of a General Hospital that provides all the services currently under threat in Banbury, and explain why. You might consider safety, cost, travel difficulties, the growing population, and the effect on the lower income and disadvantaged families. If you can illustrate your email or letter with a personal experience, that will make it more powerful. We need...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District – Facebook Posting Wild Flower Gardening July 2016
2nd August 2016 Dear Members, Gardening at Adderbury Lakes last week was also a great matter of pruning – of weeds, thistles, some burdock and other small plants, this activity resulting in a great clearance of the beds of plants and seeds nicely growing in our circular groupings within our two beds. And then I found a new wild flower right in the middle of one of those clumps, which is terribly exciting. I think its a White Campion and it must be there because of the planted wild seed mixture from our May sowings. I include a photo of this new wild seed too… Adderbury & District WI added 2 new photos. 11 mins · Dear Members WI Gardening at KHH last week was rather more a pruning session as our pink campion and small daisies were somewhat fading and had to be removed. Luckily I have a quantity of GWS seedlings all ready for planting and shall fill up the bare spaces with nice new plants …. In a few weeks I’ll also scatter a few seeds for spring growth and new blooms xxx Margaret...
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