Budleigh Salterton Medical Centre
Patient Group
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NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2011
Out of Hours Medical Help: 999 for urgent or life-threatening problems;
Devon Docs on 0845 6710270; NHS Direct on 0845 4647 for non-urgent advice.
Website: www.budleighsaltertonmedicalcentre.co.uk
In This Issue: Flu Days. Students. Meet Dr G Newman.
Using Your Brains. Drug Recall. Events
Budleigh Medical centres
Flu Sessions will be held on
Saturday 8th October 2011
8.30 -12.30pm
Saturday 15th October 2011
8.30-12.30pm
For an appointment please telephone
01395 441212 after 10.00am
If you are unable to make these dates there
are designated clinics in the practice.
Housebound people will need to phone and a
time will be arranged for a visit.
Patient Group
Committee
Brian Hart
Chair
David Marshall-Lee
Vice -Chair
Derek Bradbury
Secretary
James Birtwistle
Peter Frean
Robert Harland
Bill Jordan
Jane Verschoren
Veronica White
Richard Mejzner
Trudy Vanstone
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Contact us:
 By post to the
Medical Centre
1, The Lawn, B.S.
EX9 6LS
 Patient Group
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Students at Budleigh Salterton Medical Centre
As some of you are no doubt aware our medical centre is a training practice.
This used to be because we trained GP registrars (qualified doctors training
to be GPs) bur more recently we have also regularly taken medical students
from the Peninsular Medical School. Our intake of students varies from those
in Year 2 to those in Year 5 (final year).
The Peninsular Medical School has now been going for approximately 8
years and continues to grow year on year. It was voted 8th best medical
school on a student exit poll last year and its numbers continue to grown.
It has been well established that the quality of undergraduate teaching is
better in the community than in the acute trust. So far we have had an
excellent response from the students who have been through our doors. This
overwhelmingly positive response has been largely due to the friendliness
and willingness to help, from you, our practice population. As one of the main
student trainers I have witnessed this at first hand and would like to thank you
for your continuing support with our training status. We could not do this
without you and the better the training the better the next generation of
doctors.
Thank you for your continuing support.
Ben Hallmark
Welcome to our new registrar
Hello everyone, I am the new Registrar at Budleigh Medical Practice, and I'm
very pleased to be back. I came here as a 5th year medical student 5 years
ago, and now I'm back as a final year Registrar. I trained at Guy's, King's and
St Thomas' Medical School London, and since I qualified I've worked in
Plymouth, Lewisham and more recently the Royal Devon and Exeter, and
Imperial Surgery Exmouth.
I grew up in Exmouth, and so having done my time in London at University I
was keen to come back to East Devon to settle. Budleigh Medical Practice is
an amazing place to work, all the GPs are lovely and extremely
knowledgeable, and I feel very fortunate to be here for the next year where no
doubt I will learn a lot. I look forward to meeting many of you over the next
year.
Gemma Newman
Pharmacy Drug recall
The Manufacturer of Nurofen Plus (Reckitt Benctiser uk ltd)
has recalled all unexpired Nurofen plus tablets.
All Lloyd’s pharmacies have been instructed to remove all packs from the
shelf. They will accept all Nurofen plus tablets back from customers and give
a full refund. No other Nurofen products are affected
Lloyds Pharmacy
USING YOUR BRAINS
Since its inception, the Senior Council for Devon (SCfD) has been very active
Monitoring the services for patients with dementia and their carers. Two of
Our members - Jim Delves and David Light - carers themselves - have
produced a booklet entitled Dementia Carers' Pathway which is a
comprehensive document that has proved to be of immense value to patients
and carers NHS Devon is using this publication as one of its sources of
information for dementia patients and there carers.
The SCfD has also been very active in the provision of Memory Cafes.
Following up this work, the SCfD is now giving publicity to the South West
Dementia Brain Bank, and the Brains for Dementia Research Group, based
on Bristol University. The co-ordinating centre for the scheme is Kings
College: London: Manchester, Newcastle and Oxford Universities are also
being involved as assessment and donation centres.
It is estimated that around 750,000 people in the UK currently have dementia
and that number will probably double in the next thirty years. Breakthrough
research is clearly urgently needed.
For further information on the Senior Council for Devon's work, or a copy
of the Dementia Carers' Pathway, contact Ms Sally Lougher on 01803
732678.
For further information on the Brain Bank, contact Miss Laura Palmer
On 0117 9701212 Ext 3070 or 2270.
(Bill Jordon President - Senior Council for Devon)
Events: Public Hall, Budleigh Salterton
Wednesday 5 October 2011
Dr Richard Mejzner
Talk on the GP-Led Commissioning System
3.00 pm
Budleigh Salterton Medical Centre
Memory Café
Are you worried about your memory?
Do you care for someone with memory
problems?
Come and meet new people, and play games
& quizzes in a relaxed and friendly
atmosphere.
Fridays: 10.30am – 12.30pm
7th October
21st October
4th November
18th November
Please contact Sophie or Diane
on 01395 441212