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!

After reading your Stinchcombe News this morning I have a
thought for you.

Did you watch the program on Sunday Channel 5 – How to deep
clean your home.  To be repeated Thursday at 10 p.m.?  It was so
helpful to find out about the germs in one’s home and how to avoid problems.

It was really illuminating and you will never look at your tv controller in the same light again.

Also available here https://www.channel5.com/show/how-to-deep-clean-your-house/

I have been reading and trying to understand an article about how long the virus remains active on various surfaces..

The first thing I gathered is that the name of the Virus itself has a very short half-life..First it was just plain Coronavirus, then it was, HCoV-19 , but now it is SARS-CoV-2 ..

Back to the paper on https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

Coronavirus, if I read it right, has a half life on Cardboard of around 4 hours, and Plastic of around 7 hours.

Therefore, I would be careful about removing shoes and touching the soles, and handling paper and post…

If you are having to stay in due to the Covid-19 then please call one of your high street shops for a home delivery. They have worked together to cover the whole local area, each trader has taken an area to deliver to so that they aren’t all driving all over the place.

Phone the shop that has what you want and either pay by card over the phone or place money (pre-washed in hot soapy water) or a cheque in a sealed envelope on the doorstep. Your goods will be swapped for the envelope.

They can look after you and you will be looking after them and helping to ensure that you have small shops in town to come and shop in once this virus has passed.

The local small traders taking part in this initiative are:

IF YOU KNOW OF OTHER SHOPS / PLACES PLEASE LET ME KNOW

GL11 is co-ordinating the official joined up response, in Partnership with Gloucestershire County Council Public Health, Stroud District Council, Dursley Town Council, Cam Parish Council and Others.

They are looking for 300 Volunteers, can you help?

To volunteer, please email your

Name:
Address:

to office@gl11.org.uk

Severn Vale Community Kitchen has been set up by Dursley based Big Event Catering Ltd as a not for profit organisation to keep those in need fed during this ongoing crisis.

In conjunction with GL11 and other local agencies we are
offering wholesome, freshly made meals from our 5-star hygiene rated kitchen,
delivered to your door in recyclable containers.

Dishes to include:

• Shepherd’s Pie 
• Sausage & Mash 
• Beef Stew 
• Pork in Cider Sauce 
• Hot Pot 
• Lasagne 
• Meatballs in Tomato Sauce 
• Fish Pie 
• Butternut Squash Wellington

All meals include vegetables or salad 

£5.00 for a single meal, 4 for meals £15.00 or 7 meals for
£25.00

Also available:

• Sticky Toffee Pudding
• Ginger Sponge and Custard
• Chocolate Fudge Brownie 

£3 for a single portion, 4 for £9, or 7 portions for £15 

How to order:

Email food@bigeventcatering.co.uk or call 01453 708338 and let us know the following details

1. Which and how many meals you would like to order
2. If you have any dietary requirements
3. Your delivery address – we will get back to you with delivery times etc

We can take payment by card (exc Amex) or online transfer