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Luton Arndale Centre will host career exhibition stall
Edited by Andy Porter: A traditional red double–decker bus used to promote careers in the National Health Service [NHS] will keep to its timetable and visit towns in Hertfordshire and Essex this month.
Visitors can climb aboard and find out more about mental health nursing, and social care vacancies, with Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust [HPFT] as well as roles in the wider–NHS.
The bus offers visitors the opportunity to speak to HPFT staff about their experiences of working for the Trust, and to find out more about the many job benefits, incentives and career prospects the NHS has to offer. In addition, they will also be able to use the on–board laptop computers to browse through the NHS jobs website, and familiarise themselves with how to navigate the system and apply for jobs.
Also, interested individuals can can obtain information from the NHS careers exhibition stall:
- Monday 5 October 2009: Exhibition stall inside the Luton Arndale Centre, Smiths Lane, The Mall, Luton LU1 2LJ,
On the road, the recruitment bus is scheduled to stop at a range of locations, including:- Tuesday 6 October: Harlow Town Centre, Market Square, opposite Yates, Harlow CM20 1WG,
- Wednesday 7 October: Stevenage Town Centre, Exhibition Area, Town Square [next to McDonalds] SG1 1BP,
- Thursday 8 October: St Albans Town Centre, Town Hall Square, opposite Boots, St Peter’s Street, St Albans AL3 5DJ,
- Friday 9 October: Borehamwood, Tesco Store, Shenley Road, Borehamwood WD1 1JG.
Visit Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust online at: www.hertspartsft.nhs.uk.
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New service for minor injuries opens 1 October
Edited by Andy Porter: Urgent care centres based at Hertford County and Cheshunt Community hospitals are a new service for people with relatively minor injuries and ailments that might otherwise have had to travel to an A&E Department [Accident and Emergency Department], to get treated closer to home.
The centres, which open 1 October 2009, will provide urgent care for people who do not have a life–threatening illness or injury. The centres will include diagnostic services, such as x–rays and blood tests along with treatment areas for wound stitching, sprains and plastering minor fractures.
According to NHS Hertfordshire, urgent care centres are a new layer of health service. They offer immediate treatment for cuts that may or may not need stitching, suspected broken arms, legs, fingers, scalds caused by skin contact with hot liquids and surfaces and minor infections and illnesses. They are not an alternative to a GP surgery but designed to treat around 65 per cent of patients who would otherwise have gone to a typical accident and emergency department.
A&E Departments deal with the most seriously ill and injured people. Examples include someone is having a heart attack, stroke, or a miscarriage, or has had a road accident or a serious fracture.
In a serious emergency dial 999 and ask for the ambulance service.
Open from 8am to 8pm, seven–days–a–week, the urgent care centres are accessed on a ‘walk–in’ basis, no appointments are needed. If an ambulance has been called the paramedics will assess the seriousness of a patient’s condition in order to decide if they need to go to A&E or to an urgent care centre.
The new centres will be available to all patients and do not require people to be registered with specific GP practices. A range of healthcare staff with specialist skills will be on hand at the centre, and include: GPs; emergency nurse practitioners and physiotherapists. They will also work closely with their colleagues in A&E departments, elderly care, social workers, mental health services and child health services.
For more information visit East and North Hertfordshire NHS Primary Care Trust website at: www.enhertspct.nhs.uk.
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Runs at ten-minute intervals, Mondays to Fridays
Edited by Jane Hill: A new free bus service for patients and visitors, which will operate at ten-minute intervals, from Mondays to Fridays, 8.30am to 5pm, has recently been launched by Watford General NHS Hospital Trust.
The bus will pick-up and drop-off people in the two main hospital car parks, and at specified points around the hospital, also it can be flagged down on route around the site.
Watford General Hospital stated they developed the free transport service as individuals, especially the elderly, said they found it difficult to walk to and from its car parks to attend appointments, or, to visit their relatives and friends.
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Permanent residents of Hertsmere aged 60 or over
Edited by Andy Porter: A record 13,600 people living in the Hertsmere area of Hertfordshire are getting out–and–about thanks to a free bus pass scheme.
The pass is available to permanent residents of Hertsmere who are aged 60 or over or have one of the following disabilities:
- blind or partially sighted,
- profoundly or severely deaf, without natural speech,
- severe walking difficulties [a substantial and long–term adverse affect on their ability to walk],
- does not have arms or has long–term loss of the use of both arms,
- has had a learning disability since childhood,
- driving licence refusal due to a medical condition [except in the case of drugs or alcohol misuse],
- severe mental health problems, severe learning difficulties from birth.
For further information, and to find out if you are eligible and would like to get a bus pass telephone Hertsmere Borough Council on: 020 8207 7408. Email: buspass@hertsmere.gov.uk.
Infolink: Bus pass holders can also obtain a 50 per cent discount on First Capital Connect cheap day return fares for certain local routes. Further information from National Rail Enquiries on: 08457 484950.
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Edited by Nick Adams: Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust [HPFT] has worked with local community groups to help break down the barriers that mean people with mental health needs do not always get the support they need.
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