bawdy-nan

Great fountains at Kings cross now too

Train to the seaside: brighton or broadstairs Mudchute farm Hampton court

Congratulations! how exciting!

Thanks Saffron - yes, I did, its been really helpful and illuminating to be meet and talk to other parents - apologies to others if this felt like an annoyingly intriguing thread!

Indeed and I'd recommend anyone interested or concerned to attend one of them

I agree Paul Lupton that the yellow box near the bus station is very tricky and the traffic light signalling really doesn't help: ie light is green for you to go but the traffic lights just beyond are red so the cars in the small amount of road beyond the yellow box not moving. I've been caught out by that so I know the frustration. I can also see, however that it is important to keep that section of the road free and I did, albeit inadvertently break the rules. So, I just paid the fine quickly. As a consequence I've become very wary of all yellow box junctions and am now absolutely sure that there's a full car length available for me to get into much to the hooting chagrin of the drivers behind me.

People can find information if they google it, but I'm keen that this thread isn't shut down

I've posted on a public forum because I am trying to make contact with other parents and there isn't really another way. Those parents concerned will know about this scheme. They'll also be aware that the home/school agreement requires that parents don't post on social media about the school and I don't want to be unnecessarily inflammatory.

Sorry, I don't mean to be cryptic - just trying to find a way to reach other parents, who will know about this if they're affected, to discuss this.

I have just realised that I have been given someone else's login details for DMC online services. Registered at the surgery, got given printout which I then pinned to the notice board for future ref Have just taken a proper look and the name on the printout isn't mine. Really, quite extraordinary and astonishing.

Keen to hear from other parents who are concerned about this scheme. Please send me a private message.

This might help ... https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/healthcare/help-with-health-costs/nhs-charges-for-people-from-abroad/

I'm still waiting to see anything at all from this school about its proposed provision for children with SEN. Its vision waxes lyrical about the provision for the academically and musically gifted but says absolutely nothing at all about the provision for the near 20% of children who are identified as having some kind of special educational need (whether formally set out in an EHC or not). The downgrading of the priority for children with exceptional medical and social need sings a pretty powerful song and the complete lack of reference to SEN in the vision document suggests that the people putting this together are partially sighted on this issue at best (and, frankly, for a team setting up a new school that's a worrying lack) and at worst presenting and constructing the school as the kind of place really not at all interested in children with any kind of additional needs. Sufficient attention has been paid to what a child with an aptitude for languages might need such that an idea of what might be available to them is set out in the vision document as a kind of selling point to prospective supporters. I wonder whether the people planning the new school have made any consideration whatsoever about children with additional or special educational needs? Or perhaps this isn't considered a "selling" point. Those children with SEN might well be musically talented, academically gifted or have a special gift for languages but will they be welcome at the school? Perhaps, and one hopes, that this is merely a mistake in presentation and the team are indeed busily appointing SENCOs and planning how the school can enable all children to thrive but, from the outside, it really doesn't read or look that way at all. And that is both off-putting and extremely disappointing.

You might try contacting the Peckham Pickler, urban foraging blogger who seems to know where absolutely everything edible is round these parts .... https://www.facebook.com/urbanforagerpeckhampickler?ref=ts&fref=ts

The Melbourne Grove thing is really strange. I mean, why people go down there. It's not a comfortable drive so even if it is potentially quicker it's quite tricky usually as it's not especially wide. I did notice that a few years ago my sat nav started directing me down there if I had it on coming back from somewhere and all cans and cars I've had bringing me home from work after a late night shift go that way if they have sat nav. I wonder if this has something to do with the increased traffic?

Also, the green phase for pedestrians has disappeared it used to .....oh, yes, forgot, pedestrians just required to dash through the endless traffic here.

stayed in the campsite jsut outside of town - which was v nice Really lovely for kids: nice beaches - 1 more rough and surfy another more gentle lovely little museum kind of thing on the harbour - def worth a look nice walk up to the statue thing - not too far satisfying views winkles with pins in paper cones on the seafront buffet madness with the pinxtos - very good fun indeed We didn't go but there's a funfair on Mont Igueldo and also an aquarium. Can be a bit rainy ...

I think the "does not match your records thing" when trying to register for online services is "normal". It happened to me and I had to go into the surgery to fill in a form and they were able to register me for online services then. So, a bit tedious, but, certainly in may case, it wasn't that my details weren't held correctly

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bawdy-nan Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > 4 doing 6 hours a day (which sounds a bit > intense). > > I have a few friends who are GPs (for some reason > had a lot of medic friends at uni), they seem to > work 8-9hr days. Which on the face of it just > sounds like a normal day's work, but then you > realise that they can't take coffee breaks, or > waste time posting junk on internet forums! Yes, indeed! My calculations are rather bizarrely and unreasonably harsh and assume an appt every 10 minutes for 6 hours which can't be right! And, of course there is other work that isn't seeing patients - letters, reports meetings etc etc etc. I don't think the GPs there aren't working hard enough I just think there might not be enough of them given the numbers of registered patients.

well, yes. 25 hours of gp appts would mean, I suppose 5 doing 5 hours worth a day or 4 doing 6 hours a day (which sounds a bit intense). I don't know what is considered normal for gp hours a day devoted to appts. If less than 5 or 6 hours then you'd need more gps on duty. The surgery is vey well equipped with consulting rooms so one assumes that was factored in when they planned and built the practice...

James, I've just been researching this a bit and I think the NHS benchmark is 72 appointments per thousand registered patients per week. According to the NHS choices website DMC has 10554 registered patients which should mean 760 appointments a week or 150 a day in a 5 day week. If you assume 6 appointments an hour that means there should be 25 hours of gp appointments every day, irrespective of letter writing etc. Is this being provided? If not, why?

I think, as others have mentioned already, that a huge part of the problem is that there are simply too few doctors on duty. Quite recently I managed to secure an appointment for my son on a Friday afternoon. It had, as you might imagine, been a tremendous struggle to get an appointment at all. When we arrived the place was deserted and, as far as I could tell, there was only 1 GP working. Given the number of patients registered and the huge demand for appointments this seems ridiculous. I just don't buy the "locum" thing. I think they just don't have enough GPs working each day. Are there any "standards" set by the CQC about ratio of worked hours bs registered patients, does anyone know?

I'm not thinking of that one but the one in East Dulwich. There was a thread about it recently: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1416449,page=2 Although as one of the volunteers / organisers of that troupe posts under the nom de forum of "markydesade" I'm not entirely sure that I'd want him anywhere near my children - displaying as it does either astonishingly poor judgement or a genuine affinity with violent sexual sadist ... hey ho. Really glad to hear there's another group nearby and that your son had good fun on camp.

So, is there now another East Dulwich based cub group that isn't only for catholics? I do hope so. When I enquired 2 years ago this was all there was.

Is this the "Catholics only" east Dulwich branch of this "welcoming" organisation?