A reminder to you all that this is now in operation. If you are in a medical emergency situation and need extra immediate help such as someone to fetch the defibrillator or assist with chest compression, ring this number and a village volunteer will respond.
REMEMBER TO RING 999 FIRST
VETS 01404 565605
I have heard that a number of people immediately threw out the yellow slip with the number on it that was with the parish paper, thinking it was an advertisement for an animal doctor! More are available in Payhembury Provisions.
Tim Cox …
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Village Emergency Telephone System (VETS)
1 July 2018 By
EDDC New Green Waste Programme
5 April 2018 By
To see all details of this programme and how to join up please click EDDC Green Waste. …
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Save A Life – Be Aware of our Defribillator
9 October 2017 By
The defibrillator is now commissioned and ready to use. It is situated on the pillar of the Payhembury Provisions porch.
Please note the emergency phone is a small box just above the defib. All you do is press the button to be connected to the 999 operator and they will give you the code for the box. The purpose of this is to make sure the ambulance is called. Nearly forty people attended the Defibrillator Awareness evening in the hall given by Tina from Community Heartbeat. Everybody found it stimulating, non-threatening and entertaining, …
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Honiton Minor Injuries Unit – Change of Hours
9 November 2016 By
The closing time at Honiton MIU is now 8pm every day instead of 10pm.
The reduction in hours has been caused by staffing difficulties, and the situation is due to be reviewed before the end of the year.
Meanwhile, the future of inpatients beds at the hospital is threatened by an NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group’s proposal to close them. A steering group of objectors has been formed in Honiton to fight the proposal …
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Non Urgent Crime? Report it Online
26 June 2016 By
ClickB4UCall - why call when you don't need to...
Need to report a non-urgent crime, visit www.dc.police.uk/reportcrime …
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New Mobile App for Advice on Common Children’s Illnesses
8 April 2016 By
NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group and its hospital trust partners (North Devon District Hospital, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital and Derriford Hospital) have launched a new mobile app to give up-to-date advice about common childhood illnesses and how to treat them.
The HANDi Paediatric app, originally developed by Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, has been created by paediatric consultants and gives access to home care plans, as well as GP and hospital clinical guidelines, for the most common …
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Did you know the local NHS has a Patient Advice and Complaints Team?
6 March 2016 By
NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (NHS NEW Devon CCG) patient advice and complaints team is a service to provide patients, carers, family members, the public and staff with help, advice and support with concerns or comments relating to NHS services.
The team provides free and confidential help to investigate and resolve problems as they happen and aim to do this as quickly as possible. They can also organise in depth investigations of any problems relating to healthcare across a number of different …
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