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Print Deadlines are 10th April, 10th May, 10th August, 10th November

PRESIDENT: Dr. ANDREW MCLEODVice Presidents:Dr CHRISTOPHER BOOS MBBS, Dip IMC, RCS (Ed), MD, FRCP, RAMC.Dr. DIANE BRUCE MB, Bsc (Hons), FRCPROBERT PAYNE RGN, RHV, Bsc (Hons), PG Dip PGCEMAGGIE RICHARDSON : JIM WAINE : GEOFFREY WALKER OBE, JP, MA, RGN

PHSG COMMITTEEKEITH MATTHEWS Chairman keith@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 855001DAVID ANDERSON Secretary david@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 697376RITA HOLMES Treasurer rita@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 743960GEORGE LLEWELLYN Social Events geoll@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 605455JAN MESHER Office Manager jan@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 250108DEREK POPE Database derek@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 889070ROBIN PRINGLE Exercise Coord robin@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 884250ROGER RIDOUT Purbeck Liaison roger@poolehsg.org.uk 01929 423079GEOFF LAWRENCE Member geoff@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 888438JOHN OFFER Member john@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 386674GEORGE WILKINSON Member 01202 740374PAM BAILEY BHF Rep. 01202 574944LESLEY BRADSHAW Co-opted lesley@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 691339

If you know a member who is ill, please tell us by contactingMavis Terry, Welfare Support, on 01202 874760

OTHER CONTACTSJOHN DEFTY Chat Stops 01202 760350CYRIL MARTIN Walking Group 01202 733956DAVID ANDERSON Website david@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 697376JIM WAINE Founder and VP jim@poolehsg.org.uk 01202 871532

COVER PICTURE: Autumn at Canford © Keith Matthews

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Another issue rolls around during a quiet period for PHSG.Holidays and summertime take precedence and so it should be.Stay calm, keep happy and stay “in the zone”.Eagle-eyed readers will notice two new names on thecommittee list opposite. Oh all right then, I know you don’tlook there but do take a look now. You’ll see that GeoffLawrence has joined the committee as from the AGM . He hasalready started to give a hand with the Office and will find hisfeet soon. We welcome him aboard.Lesley Bradshaw joins us as a co-opted member too. Most of

us know Lesley and have been to one of her classes. She has always been our leadtrainer and has introduced many of the other trainers to the group. Robin Pringle andthe committee have arranged for Lesley to take on some of the co-ordination of thetraining and exercise programmes and to understudy Robin with his slowly expandingworkload so we will feel more comfortable with someone sharing the work. Lesleywill of necessity have access to the membership records and so joins us on thecommittee formally.At the risk of being boring about the subject, we really would like to see some newfaces helping out. I know this is a request common to every club or society that I’vebeen involved in, but if you feel you could offer some help, on the committee withpublicity, writing a page for this Magazine, or helping out in the office from time totime, or just generally, I’m sure you’ll actually find it quite enjoyable. Take a look atthe Office advertisement on Page 13 or give me a call or an email if you’d like todiscuss it.One thing we’d really like just now is someone who has a little bit of storage spaceand who would be prepared to run the bookstall at the Chatstop meetings. I have allthe books now and have laid them out alphabetically in flat boxes so they can be soldfrom the display. A small job for a few hours during winter months but one thatmembers really appreciate. Also if someone who could help with publicity for PHSGand make sure our details are around in all the surgeries locally would be very helpful.Neither of these task involve committee meetings and publicity could be tackled atyour own pace and timing.Finally, please note that we have now consolidated our meetings on the one place andthat from now on they will all be held in the St John’s Hall at Broadstone. Chat Stopsat 2pm and our eveing meetings at 7:30pm. You can see the bookings on page 11, butunfortunately we cannot announce the speakers for the eveningmeetings yet as its proving tricky to finalise some of the healthcare people. Watch the e-newsletter for updates.

Chairman’s Letter

Keith

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” W.H. Auden“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education.” Aristotle

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from Poole Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMedicine and Cardiology News

Dear Friends, Well here we are in the summer and hopefullyyou are all enjoying the weather and the chance to spend timeoutside with family and friends.At the hospital the final phase of the new cardiology build hasbeen completed and the services have now moved in, this hasalmost doubled the space available and now provides a largeteaching and seminar room as well as enhanced clinical areas.The cardiac rehabilitation service has also relocated there fromthe medical investigations unit so all cardiology services are inthe same building.The hospital as a whole is busier than ever and there seems to be no let up from the winterperiod. As you will have probably seen in the news throughout the NHS we are seeingincreasing numbers of patients presenting at the emergency departments, and it is a strugglefor hospitals to meet this demand and achieve the 4 hour target. Here at Poole we are nodifferent and we have seen a 10% increase in attendances this summer; there are no longerwinter pressures as these are now all year round. The increased demand has requiredincreased capacity and we have had additional escalation beds open to meet this. Of coursealways the care and safety of our patients is the priority and all escalation is carefullymonitored by the senior staff.

As you will all be aware this summer we see the commemoration of the 100th anniversaryof the outbreak of World War 1, the so called, ‘War to end all wars’, and the terrible carnagethat resulted. We can all reflect on that warm summer of 1914 when the young men of theBritish Empire marched off to a war they thought would be over by Christmas but whichlasted for just over 4 appalling years.On August 3rd Shelley Pasamar, Tracy Preddy and I went to be part of the commemorationat Highclere castle (of Downton Abbey Fame) of the start of the war. We were part of theFlorence Nightingale Foundation contingent and had displays in a large tent for the publicincluding stands from the Foundation, the armed services and a silver lamp used for theFlorence Nightingale service at Westminster Abbey. It was a wonderful and thoughtprovoking day and we all dressed in 1914-1918 uniforms. The event by the Earl andCountess of Carnarvon raised money for army charities and was extremely well attendedwith lots of pavilions and people dressed up. It was so gratifying to meet school childrenwith their parents who studied Florence Nightingale and the war as part of their lessons.We had a lovely day, the weather was kind and we met many fascinating people, but theunderlying theme was the sadness, pain and suffering that conflict can bring and theimportance of the medical and nursing professions in alleviating this.That’s all for now enjoy the rest of the summer and take care.Geoffrey Walker OBE JP MA RGNMatron Medicine, Cardiology and Specialist Nursing ServicesPoole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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Exercise News By Robin PringleAs I write this article we have Lesley, Jenni and Michelleaway on holiday. Emma is pregnant with twins. Noirin hasjust survived the write-off of her brand new Golf. Noirinhas also just done the Brownsea Island swim . . . I have toldher to keep on swimming as we don’t want any morepregnancies at the present time! There are more holidays tocome but we do believe that all the bases are covered.As you can imagine as the Group gets bigger and I getolder there is a need for some of the work to be passed onand to that end a part of my PHSG duties, recruitment,arranging training and re-validation is now to beundertaken by Lesley who probably understands them alittle better than I do. Lesley will be paid a very modestretainer and has been co-opted on to the committee.Getting back to our lovely Emma. Just how she is going to juggle twins and her workis going to be up to her. However there are about 100 surrogate grandparents lookingon and wishing her well for the future. Her classes will remain “Emma’s classes” untilshe decides otherwise. In the meantime Lesley will ensure a mixture “ofaunties” will cover the classes when she is unavailable.

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John-Paul (better known as “JP”) Carpenteris one of the ‘new’ members of the team inPoole. Having been in the job for a wholeyear (and still enjoying it!), an introduction iswell overdue. JP trained at Guy’s and St.Thomas’ Hospitals in London, graduating in1996. Following his first year in London andChichester, he travelled to Napier andHastings in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand towork with the cardiology team. This wasgreat fun, but at the time, services wererelatively basic and if patients needed anangiogram or a pacemaker, this involved aflight to either Wellington or Auckland via airambulance. Returning to the UK, heundertook a medical rotation in Chichester followed by specialist training in theWessex region, based around Southampton. This was a great chance to work insome of the local hospitals such as Salisbury, Portsmouth and Chichester, where iteven involved a stunning weekly drive through the Sussex Downs to King EdwardVII Hospital, Midhurst for a coronary angiogram list. Training in cardiology wasconsolidated in Southampton just as the new Cardiothoracic Centre was being built– a fantastic resource for the whole local area.Following two years at Southampton, JP moved to the Royal Brompton Hospital inLondon to study for a higher degree with a 3-year period of research in cardiacimaging and MRI scanning. This was under the supervision of Professor DudleyPennell and provided a huge opportunity for learning and experience, including theopportunity to travel to many parts of Europe including Scandinavia and Turkey,Singapore, the USA and Australia to attend conferences and give invited talks. Asenior fellowship in Heart Failure and Cardiac Imaging in Southampton completedhis training prior to taking up a locum Consultant post at the Royal BromptonHospital in cardiomyopathy and cardiac imaging. The idea of working in Londonwas not entirely compatible with living on the South Coast as his family were basedin Chichester at the time and when the post in Poole was advertised due toProfessor Greaves’ planned move to Australia, he jumped at the chance.It has been a great year but one of great change, involving a move to the NewForest and becoming the custodian of a 400 year-old farmhouse (with all itsdemands for attention) as well as continuing a busy family life with Emily (aged 3)and Barney (aged 2) and all their demands for attention! He is still smiling thoughand looking forward to meeting more of the Heart Support Group members. As JPsays, “The cardiology department at Poole is hard-working but good fun and agreat team. Even in the last year, many forward-looking initiatives have beenplanned and realised including a brand-new extension providing much neededspace for clinical areas and enabling the cardiac rehabilitation team to become fully

Dr John-Paul Carpenter

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When food manufacturers make a pledge toreduce the saturated fat in the food theyproduce - think chocolates, doughnuts andpies - it ought to be news that we welcome.But the devil, as always, is in the detail.Saturated fats come in many guises, not all ofthem unhealthy. For example, butter is asaturated fat, but nutritionists are now revisingtheir opinions. Recently, a leadingcardiologist, Aseem Malhotra, claimed thatdairy products and natural fats could actuallyprotect the heart and that (if so) butter shouldreplace spreads and margarine inmanufactured foods.It is all very confusing for those who wish towatch their saturated fat consumption. At present, the general consensus,which may change given the new claims made for butter, is that over-consumption of saturated fat is harmful. There bas been a similar revolution onnutritional advice over eggs. We now know that the cholesterol in eggs is notthe "bad" type that promotes cardio-vascular disease. A lot of people havebeen eating egg-white omelettes for nothing, it appears.What the food manufacturers ought to be saying is that we should beextremely careful over the quantity of "transfats" we eat. Transfats areproduced during the processing of edible oils to make refined vegetable oilsand certain types of spreads. They have no nutritional value at all.In some US states, legislation has been passed in order to help reduce theamount of transfats in manufacturing and the catering industry after a finalacknowledgement that these unhealthy fats contributed to the obesityepidemic over the many years when people were being advised to avoidbutter; years when Americans just got fatter and fatter.It makes the message now coming from the UK food industry look somewhatvague. The debate should be over natural fats (butter, cold pressed oils,animal fats like dripping and lard) versus unnatural fats: margarine, refinedvegetable oils and spreads. Fat is a complex issue, but concerned consumersare ready to understand the issues if the industry and government werebothered to provide us with the minutiae. It's called informed choice.Here is a recipe for chips. Yes, the potato kind, eaten with battered fish.Shallow fry in extra virgin olive oil (not every day, mind) keeping the heatbelow 200°C - yes, it is worth using a temperature probe. The lowertemperature means the naturally produced, cold-pressed oil retains its healthproperties. The chips take longer to fry but I believe they are more delectablethan bad-fat fries. Still, it's not a dish for every day. We need fat, but let's eat itwisely. Less but better fat.

“FAT CHANCE” By Rose Prince

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Extra-virgin chips (Serves 2-3)450g Maris Piper potatoes200ml extra virgin olive oil

Sea salt - soft crystalsPeel the potatoes and cut into chips 1cm in width. Donot wash them, the sticky starches on the potato givesthem their flavour. Heat the oil in a heavy-based fryingpan. When the oil reaches 180°C, add the potato chips

and allow them to simmer in the oil for about 10-15 minutes or until they swelland become crispy. Keep the oil under 200°C, that is, not smoking. Turn thechips gently with a spatula from time to time. Scoop out and drain on kitchenpaper. Scatter a little salt over them and eat - any way you like them.

Rose Prince is a food writer and journalist www.roseprince.co.ukThis article first appeared in “The Tablet” - The International CatholicNews Weekly. Reproduced by permission.

Airwaves are Trading Standards Approved

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The last of the season saw ourattempt at the TV show Call MyBluff. Needless to say we were notlikely to be able to get RobertRobinson or Frank Muir or anyother celebrities so you had to putup with me!Surprisingly a lot of people gotthem right, either very well read orjust good guessers?If you like this sort of thing andhave any ideas let me know and Ishall see what we can do.

Chats & TalksNoelle Brennan, Dietician - May

Organised by George Llewellyn

A very well packed meeting on a warm summery evening was the setting for NoelleBrennan’s talk on healthy eating. Noelle comes from Eire and is a Dietician at PooleHospital. A lively session with lots of questions made an enjoyable time for all.Thank you Noelle!

Chat Stop, Call My Bluff - June

Questions, questions!A keen audience inspiredby Noelle’s talk.

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All talks and Chat Stops are at St John’s Church Hall, BroadstoneAll PHSG talks and Chat Stops are free.

October 7 Chat Stop at 14:00Chatstop with entertainment.October 16 Meeting at 19:30Speaker to be announced.November 4 Chat Stop at 14:00Chatstop with entertainment.November 20 Meeting at 19:30Speaker to be announced.December 2 Chat Stop at 14:00Carol Singing with Gary

Advance NoticeFebruary 19 Meeting at 19:30April 16 AGM at 19:30PHSG Annual General Meeting

PHSG Meetings - Diary Dates

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Meetings atSt John Church Hall

Macaulay Road

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George asks“What is a Buccula?”

Geoff Lawrence and Viv Wilkinsongive the answers!

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PHSG Member Len Pearce quietly gets onwith his voluntary work for the communityin Wimborne, never seeking recognition forhis efforts. However, he certainly deservescredit for the painstakingly research he hasundertaken for two churches in the town.He has discovered details of the men whodied in the First World War, and are listedon rolls of honour at both Wimborne UnitedReformed Church and Wimborne MinsterChurch.Len, who has lived in Wimborne all his life,has been a guide at Wimborne Minsterchurch for the past 20 years, and now alsocarries out verger duties during holidayperiods. Born in East Borough in 1925 andchristened in the Minster, he said: “As aboy I knew the widows of some of the menwho didn’t come home. Two lived inChapel Lane.” He managed to get a lot of

details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website which givesbackground details to casualties.“Canon Fletcher, who was rector at Wimborne Minster during the First WorldWar put details in the parish magazine and these are held at the Priest’sHouse Museum,” he said.Len was a flight engineer in the RAF during the Second World War, andmarried Diana at Wimborne URC in March 1951; they have two daughters,four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.He may shun publicity, but last year when it was revealed that Wimborne hadthe highest proportion of married couples in the UK, he and Diana wereinterviewed by the BBC. Diana is well known in local amateur dramatic circlesas she sung with Poole and Parkstone Musical Society for 30 years, and stilldoes the make-up for local productions.An old boy of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School - a Winburnian - Len hasalso researched details of former pupils who didn’t return from the two Wars.“I’ve loved the challenge. Tell me I can’t so something and I’ll do it,” he said.Len’s research is held by the Imperial War Museum, Dorset Museum, andWimborne’s Priest’s House Museum.

Marilyn Barber is News Editor of Stour and Avon Magazine www.blackmorevale.co.ukThis photograph and article first appeared in Stour & Avon Magazine

Reproduced by permission.

War Casualties Researched by Marilyn Barber

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You can always call the Office !

You can always call the officeWe’re a happy little bunch.On a Monday or a Thursday,We’re there just after lunch.

If you need some information,Exercise or walking club,(Cyril says they rambleand then end up at the pub!).

We distribute magazinesand sign in each new member.We are on the go all the timefrom January to December

Jan MesherPHSG Office Co-ordinator.

Volunteers wantedto help in our P.H.S.G.Office for only 2 hours amonth.

01202 683363 Ext 133Manned 1.30 - 3.30pmMondays & Thursdays

Computer skills not needed.Full training given

Our trainer Clare Barratt who runs our Swanage andWareham classes has been with us for almost 15 years.For some time Clare has felt that for anyone just beingtold that they required open heart surgery there waslittle knowledge available other than the bolddescription of what they were about to undergo.Clare looked around and saw that within PHSG therewere quite a few who had vivid memories of theevents leading up to and the aftermath of the operationitself. Clare had always wanted to write a book andthis seemed to be the perfect subject and opportunity.She called for volunteers and interviewed 14 membersbefore putting pen to paper. She wishes to thank allwho assisted and those additional members whovolunteered but whose experiences remain untold.

The book is now in print and is available from Amazon, or Clare herself, at theprice of £9.99

The reading of it brings back to life those days. The good news is that we areall still here to tell the tales, thanks to the skills of the various cardiac teams.

Bypass for Life by Robin Pringle and George Llewellyn

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"Theseare mybabies," YuanMeixia told reportersat her home in Fujianprovince, "and I treat them likemy own children during their shortlives. I first saw people raisingcockroaches in Anhui province for food and asmedicine, and I was intrigued, so I paid 10,000 yuan

to buy 20 kgs of them, and started breeding them in myhouse. It takes about a month for the babies to hatch, and at any

one time I have about a hundred thousand cockroaches in my house."Yuam Meixia has become famous throughout China for her insect-infested

house. "Like children, they need sufficient nutrition," she explained, "so I placehoneydews, apples, and rice bran on shelves in each room, so they can swarm and feast.

The cockroaches are most active at night, mating and hunting for food. They mate with eachother after eating.

The process lasts for two hours and then spawning happens, with each spawn producing dozens ofbaby cockroaches. When it is hot, I sprinkle water on the walls to keep them cool, and when the weatheris cold, I light my gas-fired stove to keep them warm. Then, when they are mature, I drown them in vatsof water, and dry them under the sun before putting them in plastic bags and selling them to a

pharmaceutical company in Anhui. Their dried bodies can be sold for 600 to 800 yuan per kilo, andI usually harvest 10kg to 20kg every two months.

(South China Morning Post, 12/6/14)

THE RISK OF EXERCISING TOO MUCH!

Do go to the gym - but don't overdo it. A new study hasfound that young people who take extreme amounts of

exercise (more than 17.5 hours a week) score no higher,in terms of overall physical and mental well-being, thanthose who do none. The survey of 1,200 people aged 16to 20 in Switzerland found that physical activity wasassociated with lower levels of stress and anxiety,

and higher self-esteem, peaking with those whospent 14 hours a week exercising. The benefits

then began to fall off. This could be due toinflammation caused by excessive levels

of exercise, which has been linked topoorer physical and mental

health in other studies,says The Daily

Telegraph.

There was a young lady from SloughWho had a most terrible coughBut even thoughShe sounded most roughWe do hope that she will pull through.

In Kenya 50 years ago,they used to say thatone could tell where aperson came from bylooking at his shorts.Knee-length meant hehad just come fromBritain; four incheshigher, and he was fromEast Africa; mid-thigh,and he was fromRhodesia; higher thanthat, and he was fromSouth Africa. Longerthan knee length?American of course!

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SUDOKU by Derek

A minister was completing a temperance sermon.With great emphasis he said “If I had all theBEER in the world, I’d pour it into the river!”.With even more emphasis he pronounced “If Ihad all of the WINE in the world, I’d pour it intothe river!”Finally, almost shouting, and waving his fist in theair he said, “If I had all of the WHISKEY in the world, I’d take it andpour it into the river!”.Sermon complete, he sat down and announced the final hymn of theservice:- “Hymn 365, Shall We Gather at the River”.

There was a young lady from Slough

We do hope that she will pull through.

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Real Stories, Real Life By Michèle Carbery

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Don’t forget!We have a Hearts on Seats group that meet regularly on a Thursday afternoon atBroadstone. Seen here ready for action!

So if you feel you are not quite up to the regular exercise sessions, Jane and group willbe only to pleased to see you. Contact Robin or Lesley.

Hearts On Seats

Serena and I are getting along quietly thesedays and the recent lovely weather has beena bit too hot for us, but with a bit of luck we’llsurvive!I feel there is one more Xmas Singalong inme, so you can book me for the 2nd ofDecember at the Chat Stop.  There is achance that I can arrange a much differentprogramme in terms of presentation, I will letyou know more later, but if all else fails it willhave to be the same old me.

The same old me? You are too modest Gary. Thank you so much!See the Chat Stop page for details, and the Enews for updates closer to the time.

Carols at Christmas

GaryEditor

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Ashdown School Sports Monday 12:00 Tuesday 09:30 10:30 Wednesday 09:30 Friday 09:30 10:30

Canford School Sports Monday 09:00 10:00 Tuesday 09:00 10:00 Thursday 09:00 10:00 11:00 Friday 09:00 10:00

Ferndown Sports Monday 10:30 Wednesday 10:30

Hamworthy Fire Station Monday 10:00

“Hearts on Seats”,Broadstone Thursday 14:00

Images, Lower Parkstone Wednesday 11:00 Friday 11:00

Lytchett Minster Sports Tuesday 18:00 19:00 Thursday 18:30

“Step Down” QE Academy Wimborne Tuesday 14:30

Swanage, Burlington Sports Tuesday 14:30 15:30

Wareham, Purbeck Sports Monday 16:00 Thursday 11:00 16:00

PHSG Exercise VenuesAll sessions last 1 hour

If you are not exercising with us and would like to start please call RobinPringle or Roger Ridout.

Contact details are on the inside front cover

Our “Hearts on Seats” is designed for the less physically able.The “Step Down” class is designed for members with more complicatedheart problems and is conducted by the Poole NHS rehabilitation team incollaboration with Poole Heart Support Group.

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Meet our MembersA Showcase on Members - Jean & Alistair Allcroft

Leaving school in Fife I chose the RoyalAir Force as a career and, in 1960,travelled south to become an AircraftApprentice at RAF Halton inBuckinghamshire. Shortly after that myMum moved south to Dorchester when shebecame Matron of the Leonard CheshireChildren’s Home.Two years later Jean joined the CheshireHome staff as a children’s nurse and whenI came on leave it soon developed that wewere destined for each other.

Wouldn’t get away with it now but every weekend I would hitch-hike fromGaydon in Warwickshire to be with Jean in Dorset.Then the RAF intervened and for a year we were apart during a posting toBahrain. We married in Weymouth in November 1965 then set up home inLincoln where daughters Amanda and Sharon were born. We bought our firsthouse in Fairford, Gloucestershire and son Alistair Junior arrived in 1974.Leaving the RAF in 1977 I went off to Teacher Training College. Jean workedhard keeping the family running and doing a number of jobs to supplement mymeagre student income. I began teaching first in Swindon then at Farmor’sSchool in Fairford. Jean at this time was working for Josiah Wedgwoodpotteries in their concession shop selling much sought-after china andporcelain to the American Air Force personnel on the base at RAF Fairford.We came “home” to Dorset in 1985, and moved to Corfe Mullen. Jean spent agood while working in retail management then decided to go back to college totrain in floristry. Following completion of this training Jean became qualified asan Adult Education teacher also an Area Demonstrator for the NationalAssociation of Flower Arranging Societies..In 2004 retirement beckoned and we left Corfe Hills School to go off to NewZealand to spend 6 weeks with sister Marion and her family. Just a year laterI experienced a heart attack but two stents and loads of encouragement fromPHSG enable me to make a good recovery. We have 6 grandchildren, four ofwhom are quite grown now. The little ones are great fun and such a delight;they keep us young.Next year will see us reach our Golden Anniversary. We are enthusiasticmembers of Poole Heart Support Group and have made a great many goodfriends. We enjoy this friendship, exercise group and all the socialevents that spring from this wonderful organisation. Thank you.

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Changes are still afoot at PooleHospital. In the last month or so wehave seen the retirement of LindaEverett although she has been seenfrom time totime givingcover to herformer staffuntil thefinalchangesare made.Good newsfor Linda asherhusband,theReverendSimon, hasbeenpromoted to the position of Rector ofWareham. Good luck to them both!Now we must also say goodbye tobeloved Fiona. The good news is thatshe hasn’t gone far! She has a newrole and I am sure some of ourmembers will be seeing her again.Fiona has been appointed CardiacMatron for the Advanced Primary CareService – Community Cardiology,Wimborne. She is joining up with ourown Dr Bruce . . . what a team they’llmake! Fiona will be involved primarilywith Heart Failure and Arrhythmiapatients.Fiona trained at St Barts in Londonarriving at Poole as a Staff Nurse in theCCU and she moved to Rehab in2004. Many, many of our members willalways have the highest regard forFiona with her knowledge and caringmanner, which gave confidence to

those of us facing the future with morethan a little trepidation.Of course there is still a terrific teamleft at Rehab with wonderful nurses

Vicky, Dee, Kerstin and Helen. Theyare assisted by our own Lesley, Jayneand Emma together with Dereen andJulia. The whole team is mustered andmothered by Jenny. We are sure thatPHSG will continue to have a greatrelationship with this team but, in themeantime, many thanks again to Lindaand Fiona and all our best wishes toboth.There were three of us from PHSGinvited to Fiona’s farewell do and it wasfitting that two of them, Roger andTony, were representing those whohave been given exceptional help fromFiona over the past few years. Thethree of us enjoyed the hospitality andwe tucked into the savouries andcakes before saying our goodbyes andgiving our thanks again and very bestwishes for Fiona’s future work.

Fiona’s Leaving Soirée

Robin

Robin Pringle

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Medical Clinical Care Group Jim WaineProactive Development Unit for Cardiology

and MedicinePHSG has a voice in this influential group, representingthe views of its members.  The Group is held under thecapable chairmanship of Geoffrey Walker OBE, Matronof Cardiology and Medicine, and it really gets thingsdone! Positive changes are made to hospital proceduresas a result of patient feedback being given to PHSGrepresentatives.  All PHSG members can report back ontheir experiences of their treatment in Poole Hospital incomplete confidence.  So if you want to say something good or bad about yourexperience in  Poole Cardiac Unit, or its related departments, including theambulance service, please forward your comments. You can contact me by e mail(preferred), letter or telephone.Looking forward to hearing from you! Jim Waine, Vice President PHSG jim.waine2@btinternet.com or 01202 871532

Quality Service Group Meetings 20 May 2014 also 22 July 2014Geoffrey Walker OBE, Matron Medical Services, chaired the meetings.Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) - Amanda Colman, who looks after the “PatientsAdvice Liaison Service” (PALS)  which is based in the house between Poole Hospital and themulti-storey car park called the RESOURCES CENTRE (01202 448003), was able to give thegroup an insight into the patient experience work being conducted in the Trust. Amanda and herteam have helped many of our members over the years with problems related to treatment andprocedures in Poole hospital.  Also if you pop into the resources centre you will find informationon all medical subjects and a very friendly staff to help.Cardiology Redevelopment - GW informed the group that the new cardiology build is nowcomplete and running well.  They are still awaiting new equipment and it is hoped that futuremeetings will be conducted in the new seminar room located in the new build. The cardiacrehabilitation team are moving on 23rd July and thereafter the cardiology teams will all beworking under one roof. If you need to visit the Cardiology dept on arriving at the Poole Hospitalcheck at reception for the best route to take, as the department has moved.Hospital Admissions - Seven-Day working at Poole Hospital is going to plan and a cardiologistis now on duty Saturday and Sundays. GW informed the group that the Trust had experiencedunprecedented admission levels. There has been a 10% increase Monday to Friday and a 25%increase at weekends which has resulted in demand outstripping capacity and extra beds beingopened.They are considering methods of measuring this; however Royal Bournemouth Hospital andother local hospitals are also reporting similar figures. In conclusion capacity issues continue butpatient care and safety remain of paramount importance.

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E-Zec Transport - Unfortunately additional transport issues have been identified and are undercurrent investigation. Also Individual transport is now being booked through a private company ifE-Zec is unable to provide it; this cost is then met by E-Zec. The company is under extremescrutiny by the Trust.Statins - I think that most of our members take Statins, and when chatting it appears that mosthave had problems. Whilst I was reading an article on the benefits and side effects of Statins,  Ithought you may be interested in it, so I have passed the article over to the medicalprofessionals at Poole Hospital to check it out.  If they give it a 5 star report I will add it to mynext publication.Did you know that statins have been on the market now since 1987 and are some ofthe most widely prescribed drugs in medical history, with annual worldwide salestopping £60 billion!

I took a break during the Summer months and skipped“Membership Matters”, though I doubt if any of you missed it.I’m kept occupied by processing membership renewals at thistime of year, our treasurer Rita passes the renewal forms onto me once she has dealt with them, I enter details onto thedatabase so we have a record and also so that we know whoto chase up as the year goes by.If anyone complains to you that they didn’t get this (Autumn)magazine, then please ask them to verify that they have paidup, as we stop sending out magazines when people have notrenewed. Anyone with an email address will continue to getDavid’s newsletters as they cost nothing to post so we canafford to keep people on the list and it is a useful way to send out reminders. Please always letme know if your home address or email address changes, my contact details are in the front ofthe magazine. I prefer to receive emails rather than phone calls because then I don’t have towrite down the details so emails are less error prone. Many people change their address andforget to give us their new telephone number, so if you have moved over the last couple ofyears, it is worth sending me your up-to-date phone number in case we need to contact you.A few bits of information about the database for your elucidation: We presently have 617 fullmembers and 332 partners, 12 committee, 44 honorary members and 5 advertisers, giving atotal of 1010. We have 459 people with email addresses, which is about 75% of the fullmembers, if you use email but don’t receive David’s newsletter, please let me have your emailaddress as it is the easiest and cheapest way to contact you if we need to. So far only 464 fullmembers have paid their dues for this year, that’s a little over 69% so there are still plenty ofrenewals outstanding.If anyone wants more details from the database please let me know. Equally if anyone wantsless information then I’m happy to try to oblige them, too.

Membership Matters

Derek

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Meet our MembersA Showcase on Members - Maureen Russell

Maureen

I was born and brought up in Pooleand attended local schools. One of sixchildren, I had an idyllic childhoodwith wonderful parents.On leaving school I worked inadministration for Marks and Spencerfor 33 years and for the last 11 yearshave been working at the HarbourHospital in Poole. I have been marriedfor 43 years to my husband Brian andwe have one son.It was back in 1975 when I was made

aware of health problems caused by smoking, when my Dad, who hadsmoked heavily from the age of 14, died suddenly from a heart attack atthe age of 53. We were all devastated. I vowed never to start smokingand never have.In 1990 whilst working for Marks & Spencer, all staff were offeredhealth checks and it was through these I discovered that despite what Ithought was healthy eating, I had high cholesterol. I had played netball2 or 3 times a week for a local club and swam regularly . I cut out mostfats and after 4 months went from a size 14 to a size 10. I felt fantastic;if only I had kept up with the diet and exercise!Fast forward to August 2013, I didn't feel quite right; nothing I couldexplain just weary and under the weather . I continued to work despitefeeling very tired and in November 2013 whilst at work, I had a heartattack. I was admitted to Poole Hospital where they discovered myartery was narrowed and I had a stent inserted at RBH.It was after attending cardiac rehab, I realised how great the Poole HeartSupport Group are and just how much they do for us. I am just sograteful and feel glad to be alive! Thank you for being there.

In the last issue we noted that new member Maureen had raised £120for us after her heart event, so we asked her to tell us her story.

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The Cutting EdgeAdvances in Medical Technology - Optical Coherence Tomography 2

By Keith Matthews

In the last Winterissue we coveredOptical CoherenceTomography as anew cutting edgediagnostic technique.The beauty of it is ofcourse that it doesnot involve cutting!The use of OCT ineye diagnosis seemsa logical thing for anoptical technique butthe science is widerranging than that.Now this emergingtechnology based on laser scanning is giving dematologists a new andpowerful way to “see beneath the surface”Until now, no imaging technology was available to dematologists that couldreveal sub-surface skin tissue with any useful result, so they had to make avisual assessment backed up by biopsy. This means physically removing apiece of skin which is sent to a pathology lab for analysis, and is not pleasant,

can leave a scar, and it is time-consuming.Now OCT scanners have come tothe rescue as the dermatologistcan scan all of a patient’s lesionsand identify which ones arecancerous, and if any are,whether the tumour is sufficientlyshallow to respond to non-invasive non-scarring treatments,as well as readily performingfollow ups.Make no mistake that this is anupcoming technique andyes, you read it here firstin PHSG Magazine!

Take a Deep Breath - A Reminder!OCT delivers sharp pictures because it is based onlight, rather than sound or radio frequency. An opticalbeam is directed at the tissue, and a small portion ofthis light that reflects from sub-surface features iscollected.Most light is not reflected but scatters off in alldirections. In conventional imaging, this diffuselyscattered light contributes to a background thatobscures an image. However, in OCT, a techniquecalled interferometry is used to record the optical pathlength of received light allowing rejection of most of itthat scatters multiple times before detection.Thus OCT can build up clear 3D images of thicksamples by rejecting the background signal whilecollecting light directly reflected from surfaces ofinterest.

Michelson Diagnostics is a new UK high-tech company in theforefront of OCT techniques. Here their Vivosight OCT probe is used

to examine a skin lesion.

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Come Walk With PHSGFor those who are interested in the Walking Group,We walk every 10 days on Wednesdays andSaturdays from 2 to 5 miles. Some of us round offthe day’s walk with a Pub lunch!If you require more information or the full WalkingBook (£3) please contact me on 01202 733956.

Saturday 13th SeptemberBovington Heath to Morton 10:00amDistance 3¾ miles - OS 194 SY810911

Take the A35 and at the roundabout justbefore Bere Regis, turn left on the roadsigned to Wool and Bovington. After 2¾ milesturn right signed Bovington - Tincleton.Follow this road for 1¾ miles, just pass a leftturn the track and parking will be found on theleft.Follow the track for 1½ miles over a longbridge to village. Retrace your steps back tothe fork, turn right follow this track, bearingleft through the wood. Bear left again up thehill through the woods back to the cars.

NI thought I’d like to be in theRamblers and phoned to join, butthe guy who answered just wenton and on!

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Wednesday 24th SeptemberLongham & Hampreston 10:00amDistance 3¾ miles - OS 195 SZ066986

Meet on the road outside Haskins GardenCentre at Longham and park locally.Walk up Ham Lane a short way, at the end ofthe bungalows turn right to a footpath throughwoods to fields. Cross the field and follow thepath onto road, turn left and go throughHampreston village to the church. Turn leftup the footpath and follow on to lakes, goround small lake and back to the cars.

We had a little rain to start but Cyril organized the weather to change to a very sunny day. Hehad also arranged a golf tournament to find the best golfer who was Malcolm Travers andSylvia Chapman won the ladies prize, the prize was a large bag of manure.If anyone who would like to have a copy of the photo please e-mail Jim Waine atjim.waine2@btinternet.com

The Walking Group’s picnic at Linwood on Saturday 2nd August.

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☺ I went to a pet shop to buy a goldfish. The shopkeeper said“Do you want an aquarium?” I said, “I don’t care what starsign it is.”☺ I bought some Armageddon cheese today, and it saidon the packet. “Best before End.”☺ I was reading this book today, “The History of Glue”. Icoudn’t put it down.

☺ A cowboy walks into a German car showroom; “Audi!”☺ I phoned the local builders today, I said to them “Can I have a skip outside my

house?” He said, “I’m not stopping you!”☺ I went to the local video shop and I said, “Can I borrow Batman Forever?” He

said “No, you’ll have to bring it back tomorrow.”☺ Two horsey ladies walk into a bar and one says to the barman “Hello, could we

get a large aperitif?” He replies “I really doubt it, love.”☺ “Alright then, we’d like two liqueurs please.” “OK love, but watch what you’re

doing with those teeth!”☺ My mate is in a rock band who clean up their dressing room after each gig.

They're called OCD/C.☺ A man asked me if there was a B & Q in Basingstoke, I said that there wasn't and

that he was probably thinking of Quebec.☺ If the Queen were to take a selfie, would it be a onesie?☺ What do you call a dinosaur that does things quickly? A Prontosaurus.☺ What is the most appropriate religion for a coffee addict? C off Ee!

Are you sure it isn’t Caffholic?Or Latte Day Saints maybe?

FIFTY SHEDS OF GREY - As seen by Men☺ They asked me to smear their naked bodies with the produce

from my herb garden but I just couldn't do it. Too manywomen, not enough thyme.

☺ Her body tensed and quivered as she felt wave after wave flowthrough it. Probably should've told her about the electric fence.

☺ As I lay there on the floor, my body covered in treacle and whipped cream, I heardthose inevitable words . . . “Clean up on Aisle Three”.

☺ “Are you ready to be tortured in a way only a woman can torture a man?” sheasked. I nodded nervously. “OK” she said and ate half my chips.

☺ “Harder!” she cried, gripping the table even tighter, “Harder!” “Alright,” I said,“What's the gross national product of Nicaragua?”

☺ “I'm a bad girl,” she whispered, “Punish me in a way only a real man can!”“Alright,” I said and left my wet towels on the bathroom floor.

☺ “I want it now against this wall!” she ordered, “And keep it up as long aspossible.” “Don't worry,” I said, “I know how to put up a shelf.”

☺ “How do you feel about using toys in the bedroom?” she asked. “Fine,” I said,“But I can't see how we're going to fit a Scalextric in here.”

☺ We tried various positions - round the back, up against a wall . . . but the bottomof the garden was the only place for a really good shed.

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An Indian Chief was feeling very sick so he summonedthe Medicine man. After an examination the medicineman took out a long thin strip of elk rawhide and

gave it to the chief, telling him to bite off,chew, and swallow one inch of the leathereach day. After a month the medicine man

returned to see how the chief was feeling. Thechief shrugged and said, “The thong is ended, but the malady lingers on.”

As a butcher is shooing a sausagedog from his shop, he sees a £5note in the dog's mouth and a notereading "Half pound of beef sausages,please."Amazed, the butcher takes the money, putsa pack of sausages in the dog's mouth andquickly closes the shop.He follows the dog and watches him wait for a green light, look both ways,and trot across the road to a bus stop. The dog checks the time table andsits on the bench. When a bus arrives, he walks around to the front andlooks at the number, then boards the bus. The butcher follows,dumbstruck. As the bus travels out into the suburbs, the dog takes in thescenery. After awhile he stands on his back paws to push the "stop"button, then the butcher follows him off.The dog runs up to a house and drops his bag on the porch. He goes backdown the path, takes a big run, and throws himself -Whap!- against thedoor. He does this again and again. No answer. So he jumps on a wall, walksaround the garden, beats his head against a window, jumps off, and waitsat the front door. A big guy opens it and starts cursing and pummelling thedog.The butcher runs up screams at the guy: "What the hell are you doing?This dog's a genius!"The owner responds, "Genius be blowed, this is the second time this weekhe's forgotten his key!"

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Rides are about 15 to 20 miles long, the rides are open to all membersof the PHSG as long as your doctor approves. For help, advice,weather check and bike maintenance call Keith Matthews on 01202855001. We’ll arrange to check out your bike if it needs it.STARTS 10:00am Meet & DestinationSunday 21 Sep Ringwood Underpass - New Forest RunSunday 12 Oct “Gridiron” 100 www.wessexctc.org/grdet.htmSunday 19 Oct Wimborne Square - Blandford BevySunday 23 Nov Broadstone Liesure - Poole QuaySunday 21 Dec Hill View Road - Mince Pie MeetIn bad weather call before 9:00am to see if the ride is going ahead.

PHSG Cycling Group Rides

“When you stop pedaling your bicycle, you fall off.” Mark Twain“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can bephotographed standing in front of his car.” Emile Ganest

I took my bike to the bike shop. I toldthem I wanted them to make it go faster.

They sold it to someone else!

PHSG Cyclists at the New

Forest Airfields Museum

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PHSG cycle rides areorganised under theumbrella of the Cyclists’Touring Club. The CTCis the oldest touring clubin the world founded in1878 and runcontinuously ever since.Back then when cyclingwas new and beforecars hit the roads,theclub was mainly for the

rich and CTC appointed hotels around the country and issued largecast iron badges which were fastened to the buildings. These werepretty substantial things and many of them are still there 120 yearslater. The nearest one to us here is on the White Hart at SturminsterNewton so take a look next time you are passing. You’ll find thelandlord is well aware of the antiquity of his sign which is why it is wellmaintained.You can read all about these signs and their history on a website that Ipublish where the locations are all listed at www.wingedwheels.info

Recently, Iachieved myambition ofacquiring one ofthese “Wheels” formyself from thewidow of a cyclistin Derbyshire whorecognisedsomeone who

would appreciate it best. Transporting it was no mean feat; it weighs56lbs. Fortunately I was taking a short break in Staffordshire and couldmeet up. A local paint shop shot-blasted it for me and powder coated itblack leaving me to line out the features in white. People who restorethese signs often want to paint them in the CTC colours of blue &yellow but this is wrong. They were not the colours then and the onlyoutdoor paints available readily to the Victorians were black and white!

CTC and the Winged Wheel By Keith Matthews

Before and After for the 120 year old cast iron sign

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HOLIDAY WORD SEARCH

Our Word Searches are compiled by Derek Pope

T Z S O S A D I L A G R A M A T N A SN A E R Z A N I U Q R O L L A M K X ZE C R A R R A I X T I N A L E F V G LM N E N H E R B T R E L L O S P T Z AT E R G B V A W A R W N I D O C T K RR L R E E R M A R O S Y C A M P O S DA L O B L E A T D C Q Y A I R W C R EP O P L E S T E N A V O N A M L A P HA P P O T N A R A N Z M T S T Q L T TS L I S O O C P J A I O E K C O V E AN R R S H S F A Y M A G A L U F I K CO O T O T S I R C O T R O P Y T A R AP J T M V L M K A W J A C R O L L A MA A E T A S S O M E D L L A V F L M LT M K R O E T R O F A C I P N A C A AN C N A E F H C A R D F O S E V A C PA U A I S L A S D R A G O N E R A N IS L L L D H V I R I U T N O M K L I NA L B E M U I R A U Q A A I D U C L A

ALCUDIA; ALICANTE; ANDRATX; APARTMENT; AQUARIUM;BLANKETTRIP; CALVIA; CAMPOS; CANPICAFORT;CATAMARAN; CAVESOFDRACH; FELANITX; HOTEL;INCAMARKET; ISLASDRAGONERA; LLUCMAJOR; MAGALUF;MALLORCA; MALLORQUIN; MANACOR; MONTUIRI;ORANGEBLOSSOMTRAIL; PALMACATHEDRAL; PALMANOVA;POLLENCA; PORRERES; PORTOCRISTO; SANTAMARGALIDASANTAPONSA; SOLLER; SONSERVERA; VALLDEMOSSA;WATERPARK

♥ The bandage was wound around the wound.♥ The farm was used to produce produce.♥ The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.♥ We must polish the Polish furniture.♥ He could lead if he would get the lead out.♥ The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert..♥ A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.♥ When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.♥ I did not object to the object.♥ The insurance was invalid for the invalid.♥ There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.♥ They were too close to the door to close it.♥ The buck does funny things when the does are present.♥ A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.♥ To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.♥ Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.♥ The wind was too strong to wind the sail.♥ Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.♥ I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.♥ How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger;neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French friesin France . Sweetmeats are sugary while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We takeEnglish for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don'tham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. Soone moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amendsbut not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,what do you call it?If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does ahumanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylumfor the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Shipby truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy areopposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house canburn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goesoff by going on.English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race,which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, butwhen the lights are out, they are invisible.

Crazy English

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WHAT TO DO IF YOU BECOME UNWELLMedical help and advice is available if you become unwell when yourGP surgery is closed. You should:Dial 999 or go to A & E as soon as possible if you are worried about thesudden onset of new symptoms or have suffered a serious Injury orillness.A & E departments are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They arefor a critical or life threatening situation, for example chest pain,suspected heart attack, severe breathing difficulties, severe loss ofblood, loss of consciousness, deep wounds and suspected brokenbones. They are not for minor injuries or health problems, nor analternative to seeing your GP or for a ‘second opinion’ if you havealready seen your GP.You can also call Non Emergency Care on 111 if you are feeling unwellbut not facing a life-threatening emergency and you are unsure what todo. Use 111 if you need information about finding a pharmacist, dentistor other service and cannot wait until your GP surgery opens. Thisservice replaces the old Dorset Out of Hours Medical Service.Go to an NHS Walk-In Centre or Minor Injuries Unit with a minorinjury or illness. Find the nearest one by calling 111

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Poole Heart Support Group, Poole Community Health CentreShaftesbury Road, Poole BH15 2NT

Affiliated to the British Heart Foundation andArrhythmia Alliance - The Heart Rhythm Charity