Sue

I just had a quick look and it seems that people posting on it are complaining of being spammed with pornographic PMs, oh dear :))

Green Goose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm surprised that camper is still there after all > these years and that that P!k?$ havn't nicked it > yet! xxxxxx And would you care to fill in the missing letters of the word I've emphasised in bold, Green Goose?

Hi James, Rahrahrah mentioned six applications, but you only refer to three. Which three are you talking about? And what happened to the others? Also, do you know how "interest" is being quantified, as some roads/areas are much longer/bigger than others? I want to know whether I need to drum up "interest" in my road!

treehugger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've lived here since 1991 and brought up my kids > here (who wouldn't want to live anywhere else... > Good luck with that). It was a bit of a shit hole > when we moved here from Kennington, and now I'm > pretty incredulous at the prices. If I was 30 now > with a baby and a decent but not great job, I > don't think I could move to what was then a run > down and out of the way suburb... xxxxxx I also moved here in 1991, and I think it's unfair to call it "a bit of a shit hole." It may have been a bit run down, but it was (and is) near parks and woods and other green spaces, which was my main reason for moving here.

hpsaucey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > PeckhamRose Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Give me Nunhead any day..... .... .... > > Shhhh - don't tell anyone! If you tell them they > may come! xxxxxxx It's already happening. Nunhead appears to be rapidly going the same way as East Dulwich, including rocketing house prices ...... :(

JDR Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In true DMC style I have just received an > invitation to a meeting on Wed 12th March at 6 pm. > The letter is franked from 11/3/2014..... > > Obvs I received it on the 13th March.... > > Nuff said xxxxx I was emailed mine a few days back. I posted the contents on another DMC thread on here .....

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Applications have been made to install them on > lordship Lane, Ulvercroft and Heber Roads, > Melbourne Grove, the East Dulwich Estate and > Bellenden Road. If you live near any of these > locations and would like to have access to secure > on street parking for your bicycle, please contact > your Councillors to register your support. xxxxxx Any update on this, rahrahrah? It's nearing the end of the financial year :)

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, try a search for "hangar". xxxxxx Thanks! I did think I might have spelled it wrong :))

Apologies for posting this on here, but I can't find the thread which was discussing it. Does anybody know what is happening about the secure cycle hangers (?) which were being considered for various local roads? I applied for one in Ulverscroft Road but haven't heard anything since. I'm keen to get a bike but have nowhere suitable to store one, and I'd definitely start cycling if I had somewhere safe to keep the bike. If someone could post the link to the original thread that would be useful, then I can post on there instead of here.

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whats this butterfly in my front garden - it flew > away before I could get closer ! xxxxxxx Looks like a Peacock? Butterfly, that is :) ETA: http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?vernacular_name=Peacock

Don't know whether this is an appropriate thread to put this, but I've just received an email from DMC about a Patient Participation Group whose next meeting is at 6pm this Wednesday (12 March), and attaching this newsletter (sorry for the formating, I've copied and pasted from a pdf): DMC Crystal Palace Road PPG e-news 1 The Patient Participation Group met at DMC on December 11th. As well as the new committee and seven other patients, the meeting was attended by Olu Bankole, the new Assistant Practice Manager; Mr Anil Gupta, the business director; and John Adams, the pharmacist (already helping the PPG a good deal). We were pleased to see staff taking the PPG seriously. We still want to know whether we can do anything useful as a group. Our attempts at patient engagement have been good but hampered by the inability of the practice to maintain a supply of feedback slips and patient newsletters, and to deliver the online newsletter. It is to be hoped that each issue of the newsletter can be continuously available in leaflet form on the reception desk and put on the practice website so that patients can follow what is going on. The main points of the PPG Draft Constitution reconsidered on 11.12.13 are: to strengthen the relationship between patients and the practice; and working together while putting patients first, to improve services, promote health and improve quality of care. We shall put the full terms of reference on the PPG notice board and ask for them to be put on the website. We discussed mutual expectations of the PPG and the practice. Patient Feedback gave clear indications about the need for a thorough review of all aspects of booking and attending appointments. Several changes of personnel and procedures in the admin department should help. Please keep feedback coming so that we can see if things are improving. Next meeting 6pm Weds Mar. 12th at DMC. Our next job is to get to grips with... Telephone Triage During the early Spring, DMC is going to try this as a way of saving us time and unnecessary journeys, because it is suggested that more than half of our problems can be dealt with by a doctor over the phone without the need for a visit to the surgery. Olu says: ?Patients will ring in the morning and speak to a receptionist who will then place the patients on a list to be called back by a GP. The GP will then have a telephone consultation with the patient assessing if a surgery visit is needed. ?This will free up the appointments for those that need to be seen by a GP for observation etc. as opposed to those that need just a prescription/letter/ or change of medication which can be done in the GP?s admin time and left for the patient to pick up at their convenience. ?We have added new members of admin to the team to enable us to deal with the demand on the phones, and have looked in depth at the demand and the man power needed to enable the triage to work. ?The appointment system as a whole will be revamped as a result of the triage. This is something every member of the team will have an input in, and is being overseen by both our Directors Anil and Ravi, and we agree it is in need of a change.? There is to be a staff training day in mid-January to prepare clinical and admin staff for telephone triage. Helen (PPG chair) will go along to learn about it so that she can explain more in the next newsletter. Please keep feedback coming so that we can see how it is working. Try emailing [email protected]. Budget constraints Mr Gupta pointed out that all GP practices have had their budgets cut back, while being expected to deliver better services to more people. We noted that it is impossible to fulfil long-established expectations in these new circumstances. Crystal Palace Road e-issue no. 2 Patient Participation Group DMC January 2014 DMC Crystal Palace Road PPG e-news 2 The practice is looking to running from 8am to 7pm Mondays to Fridays. It is very unlikely that Saturday surgeries will come back. Missed appointments It is still very frustrating when people don?t let the surgery know that they can?t turn up for appointments. Doctors keep other patients waiting for nothing. Let us do our bit here. One suggestion was that patients who miss pre-booked appointments three times in succession might be able to make on-the-day appointments only. Admin hopes to make better use of text reminders. Doctors would like patients to make better use of John Adams, the Practice Pharmacist who can deal rapidly with all issues surrounding repeat prescriptions. Some of us are always late ordering repeats! Let us do our bit here too. Have you tried asking the local pharmacy to put you on automatic repeat? We are reminded that SELDOC should be our out-of-hours first choice unless we really need A&E. (Useful phone numbers in the right-hand column). A question for the future The multi-function health centre ?hub? planned for somewhere on the Dulwich Hospital site is inviting GP surgeries to come and share its premises to provide ordinary primary care as well as the additional specialist clinic-style services. How would you feel about this practice moving to that site? Comment through the DMC website. PPG meeting ground rules * Meetings start on time at 6pm and stick to schedule. * Everyone welcome. * All phones turned off * Please speak ?through the chair? at meetings to avoid everyone trying to speak at once. Raise a hand so that the chair knows you have something to say. * Send discussion topics to [email protected], or put a note in the patient feedback box, in advance of meetings so that they go on the agenda. * The PPG is a patient forum chaired and run by patients, so if staff wish to include speakers and agenda items they must advise the chair in advance of the topic, the speaker and the time needed so that space may be allocated on the agenda. The Locality Patient Group for South Southwark is preparing questionnaires to find out what works well in local PPGs. We look forward to having something to report. The new practice website is under review. If you have constructive suggestions about functions you would like to see there, please email [email protected] DMC practice website is: www.crystalpalaceroad.nhs.uk email: [email protected] Dulwich Medical Centre 163-169 Crystal Palace Road East Dulwich London SE22 9EP Phone: 0208 693 2727 SELDOC out of hours service is at Dulwich Community Hospital, East Dulwich Grove London SE22 8PT Phone: 0208 693 9066 Peckham drop-in health centre is at Lister Health Centre 101 Peckham Road London SE15 5LJ Phone: 020 3049 8430 email: [email protected] www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk for health advice or Phone: 111 King?s College Hospital Accident and Emergency Dept. via main switchboard Phone: 020 3299 9900 NEXT PPG MEETING 6PM WEDS March 12th 2014 PLEASE COME ALONG! HJC 04.01.14

Has anybody else noticed loads of olives on olive trees (including very small ones in tubs) around ED? Is this usual for this country, or is it yet another manifestation of climate change?

I can't see a tree in the photo! Am I going mad(der)?

kristen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > - in response to Sue - > > In theory it's possible to see the same GP. But > the appointment system doesn't support this. > This has meant I have the choice of either waiting > 3 to 4 weeks (or longer) to try to get some > consistency of care or taking pot luck on the day > I manage to get through (via phone or going ot > surgery) to book. xxxxxxxx Yes, that makes sense. xxxxxxxxx > > Also not sure really how to take the statement > > "I'm obviously not suggesting that you didn't have > poor experiences, kristen, but I must say I'm very > surprised and disappointed" > > Did you miss the comments on here - & on the NHS > board? I'm not sure why you would find my > experience very surprising. Also if you're very > surprised I think that is saying (indirectly) that > you're questioning what I'm saying (although it's > late & I might be reading too much into this) xxxxxxxxxxx No, I wasn't at all questioning what you were saying, far from it! That was why I specifically said "I'm obviously not suggesting that you didn't have poor experiences, kristen" !!! I couldn't possibly question somebody else's experiences, how could I? Just, they differed from my own, and I was under the impression that the problems at DMC were not with the GPs per se, but from what you say I can't have read the thread properly, and I probably mixed it up with one of the other DMC threads, so if so sorry :(

Possibly he had taken the address down wrong? Did he have your name as well, or just the address? Maybe one of your neighbours is wondering why he didn't turn up to fix their dishwasher!

Jenny1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I haven't seen any frogs out and about yet. That > sounds interesting. > > But I did spot my first butterfly of the year this > morning - a yellow brimstone I think. xxxxxxx I also saw what I think was a yellow brimstone today, in Dulwich Park. Also saw several brown rats in the reeds near the bridge across the lake, and swimming in the water :) What lovely weather ....

kristen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't know how the surgery works but I wonder > why most of the GPs seem so disinterested, > unhelpful, bordering on the neglectful. ...... > Most of the GPs I've seen there don't have a clue > & I've given up expecting anything from them - I > don't see them for medical advice/opinion anymore > just for checking in on repeat prescriptions > medication - or a referral. > xxxxxxxx My own experience of all the GPs at DMC has been that they have been competent, interested and extremely helpful, apart from one locum I saw years ago. And in the past, if I wanted to see a particular GP, I just asked. I haven't done recently, so I don't know whether that's still possible. I'm obviously not suggesting that you didn't have poor experiences, kristen, but I must say I'm very surprised and disappointed :( I do think the admin problems are not confined to DMC though. They seem to be a result of general NHS changes, though I'm not sure what. My daughter has had dreadful problems with her GP in Oxford, both for herself and for one of my granddaughters, for example with very delayed hospital referrals which just seemed to be sitting around the surgery for weeks.

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> > Was obvious why they chose ED and is viable as a > business - a large portion of their Greenwich > custom comes from ED. xxxxxx Will have a bit of a knock-on effect on their Greenwich cinema, then! Looking forward to seeing the plans on Saturday, as I couldn't go last night. Does anybody know whether they have been/will be posted online anywhere?

That is so sad to hear, because on the only occasion I have had to go to King's A&E, every single person who looked after me - both doctors and nurses - could not have been more lovely and caring.

Very sorry to hear of people having to wait so long for test results, especially for a child. I had blood tests recently and received a letter from DMC asking me to phone for a telephone appointment to discuss the results, although it was not urgent. I put the letter to one side and didn't get round to phoning them, so then they phoned me to make the appointment, which I thought was excellent, considering it was not urgent and I would have got round to it eventually. I subsequently had a helpful and constructive phone conversation with a GP about the results. Clearly things are far from good at DMC in some respects, but credit where it's due too.

Mustard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > according to that advert, Ulverscroft Rd is in > SW22, and the floor plans shows 5 beds, some very > small plus another dressing type room. Looks very > top heavy for such a small garden. xxxxxx There was a house in Ulverscroft (which recently sold) which had been converted in a strange way to have so many bedrooms (or so I was told by an estate agent). Maybe it was that one. I think whoever bought it would have to spend money revising the layout, which is maybe why the asking price was relatively low. However at least one other house in the road is getting a loft conversion with two bedrooms in addition to the existing three. I agree it is a lot of bedrooms when the gardens are so tiny, particularly on the side with the odd-numbered houses.

char1i3 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And yes pinecone, it was almost certainly not > dumped by the tenants. xxxxxx Bit off to post their names on here then, no?

Review of a Casio watch on Amazon: Talk about style... this timepiece has it all. My parents gave me my first F91 as a schoolboy but I never fully appreciated its unique blend of under-rated retro style and charming character. My timepiece acquired legendary iconic status amongst my schoolfriends after surviving multiple attempts to destroy it. During one notable double chemistry lesson we managed to take off the screen using pencil-sharpener blades, we then stabbed the display with our compasses before setting the watch on fire over a bunsen burner. To my amazement the F91 continued to function as normal. I now consider my F91 or Freddie as he likes to be known, to be my best friend.

hpsaucey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Wild Women of Wongo xxxxxxx Oh happy memories :))

Oh FFS