Double bag and wait before you bin – take extra measures during Coronavirus

When cleaning you should use your usual household products, like detergents and bleach, as these will be very effective at getting rid of the virus on surfaces. Clean frequently touched surfaces such as door handles, handrails, remote controls and table tops. This is particularly important if you have an older or vulnerable person in the house.

Personal waste (such as used tissues) and disposable cleaning cloths can be stored securely within disposable rubbish bags. These bags should be placed into another bag, tied securely and kept separate from other waste. This should be put aside for at least 72 hours before being put in your usual external household waste bin.

Other household waste can be disposed of as normal.

See Stay at Home Guidance

Scammers

PLEASE Beware! This is a good time for scammers to prowl while people are alone and vulnerable at home. From fake emails, calls from the Bank, Virus testing kits, Hand Gel, people are out there and trying it on.

It’s SO easy to fall for a scam, most people have in their lifetime but especially at this moment, be careful and talk with a friend first. Or even me! 🙂

Community help hub launched to
support residents

Gloucestershire’s
councils and partners have created a community help hub to connect local people
who need help, with others who can provide the support they need.

As further measures
are put in place to delay the spread of Covid-19, local people have already
started to pull together to arrange help in their area for those who need it,
but not everyone has existing connections.

In response, the
council’s across the county have come together with the police and health
partners to create the hub to connect local people who need help, with
individuals, groups and businesses who can provide the support they need.

The hub includes
four forms:

• ‘I can offer help’ – is for those who are able to support neighbours with tasks such as picking up prescriptions, shopping, dog walking and more. 
• ‘I need help’ – can be used by individuals to ask for support
• ‘My neighbour needs help’ – may be used by people to request help on behalf of a neighbour, relative or friend who cannot access the internet themselves
• ‘My business can help’ – will allow local businesses who may have skills and resources others could benefit from, to offer their help.

People who cannot
go online can register by phone on 01452
583519  Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 5.00pm.

If you’re part
of an existing community group who can offer help locally, we’d still like you
to register.

The information
collected will be shared daily with the relevant local council who will connect
people who can help each other, or if appropriate refer individuals to an
existing service. 

The hub is
accessible from every district council website, and from the county council’s
website at https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/helphub

Help us to share details of the community help hub on social media using the hashtag #GlosCommunity
The hub includes an image for social media and a poster too

https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/list-of-online-resources-for-anyone-who-is-isolated-at-home

Your NHS needs you! Join our team today.

NHS Volunteer Responders has been set up to support the NHS during the COVID-19 outbreak. To do this we need an ‘army’ of volunteers who can support the 1.5m people in England who are at most risk from the virus to stay well. Our doctors, nurses and other professionals will be able to refer people in to NHS Volunteer Responders and be confident that they have been matched with a reliable, named volunteer.

You can help by signing up for one or more of the tasks listed below. Once you have registered and checks are complete you will be provided a log-in to the GoodSAM Responder app. Switch the app to ‘on duty’, and you’ll see live and local volunteer tasks to pick from nearby.

This programme enables volunteers to provide care or to help a vulnerable person, which is permitted under the new rules announced by the Government on 23rd March 2020. Volunteers may be asked to show the active task they are responding to if asked.

Your NHS needs you! Join our team today.

Volunteers must be 18 or over, and fit and well with no symptoms. Those in higher-risk groups (including those over 70, those who are pregnant or with underlying medical conditions) will be able to offer support by telephone.

Your safety is our priority. The majority of tasks can be undertaken while social distancing and volunteers will receive guidance through our ‘getting started pack’. If you do become ill you can pause your volunteering.

Patient transport drivers will require an enhanced DBS check and will receive guidance to do this role safely, also included within the ‘getting started pack’.

Saving
lives through technology

Operating Internationally, GoodSAM (Smartphone Activated Medics) incorporates the world’s most advanced emergency alerting and dispatching platform with a community of highly governed trained and trusted responders. The GoodSAM Cardiac system integrates with ambulance service CAD (computer aided dispatch) systems to trigger bystander response while the ambulance service is on route. GoodSAMPro provides a Community First Responder (CFR) dispatch system dispatching advanced care beyond cardiac arrest.

One of these leaflets sent by the government, written to people who don’t have common sense!

Dear Stinchcombe Resident, and those who still take it having moved away.

First I must say thank you to all those who have taken the time to email me with your comments.

These are going to be difficult times for everyone, not only here in the UK, but also Europe and Worldwide. As I write this morning another 41K people were confirmed with the virus Worldwide and that will be probably 50K today. Both of these estimates will be far short of the real total.

Here in Gloucestershire we have up to now been fairly sheltered from the spread with their being only 32 reported cases when we finally went into lock-down. So, What does this mean? It’s time for the maths..

Italy has been in lock-down since 9th March and the growth rate has finally started to slow, some 14 days later.

The UK had 35 cases on 1st March and 14 days later it had 1061.

This means, and I am no expert, that I expect that should the lock-down last for 14 days, the number of cases in Gloucestershire to top out at between 1000 and 1500 cases at that point and then tail off rapidly.

This I feel is excellent news for us and means that we should not panic.

Of course much depends on how strict people are with the 2 metre rule. It’s the absolute key.

The WhatsApp group “Stinchcombe Together” has been doing a wonderful job of supporting people in the village and keeping people informed. If you want to help others in the community, please join by emailing stinchcombeparish@gmail.com with your Mobile Phone Number and Address and we will get you added.

If you just want to keep abreast of all the news for the next month, you can also join “Stinchcombe Together” as well but please say in the email that you can’t help….I warn you it is quite a busy group!…But (WARNING) please don’t add any jokes, adverts, videos, etc etc. It’s a serious too and I will take you off immediately.

Whatever, this is the time to be good to each other because,

WE ARE IN IT TOGETHER

Richard