theWI Adderbury & District WI – Games in the Garden – Thursday, 18th August 2016 – My Facebook Posting
Friday, 19th August 2016 Dear Ladies, We had a splendid evening last night for Games in the Garden at Holly House with a wonderful spread of delicious nibbles and finger food plus strawberries and shortbread and lashings of Pimms. The games were great too – quoits, skittles, Boule and Jenga, ooh and croquet ! xxx Margaret Halstead xxx
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – Facebook Posting Wednesday, 10th August 2016 – Adderbury Lakes Gardening
Adderbury & District WI added 4 new photos. 5 mins · Dear Members, Gardening at Adderbury Lakes and another new plant to write about, that of the selfheal – Prunella vulgaris – this plant has just popped up into the middle of the beds we are caring for this summer. The tiny purple flower spikes grow on what rather looks like one of those wooden honey dippers, growing low down the purple spikes show up quite well once you’ve spotted them growing. Coming away from this bed towards the pathway to the gate, I suddenly noticed two further selfheal plants I’d not seen before. The white campion plant is still blooming and I feel there could be other plants and blooms just waiting to emerge. The cornflower is still doing very well, so too our ox-eye daisies Adderbury & District WI Our selfheal plant at KHH is also doing well – just waiting for the purple spikes to appear...
Read MoretheWI 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...
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