Posts Tagged ‘GP registration’
Sunday, May 29th, 2022
A Psychotherapy and Mental Health Skills Coaching Service for itinerant liveaboard boaters has been launched, supported by the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) and funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. It aims to help liveaboard boaters to access the mental health support that they need. For contact details and more information, click here
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, Community Fund, continuous cruising, GP registration, liveaboards, mental health, National Lottery, NHS, NHS access, traveller's rights
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) need volunteers to help with a mass mystery shop of GP surgeries in England. In recent years, FFT has exposed that GP surgeries routinely broke NHS guidelines by refusing to register a nomadic, Romany or Traveller patient, both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Tags: continuous cruising, discrimination, Friends Families and Travellers, GP registration, Health, healthcare access, liveaboards, mystery shop, volunteers
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
By mid-February 2021 the Government aimed to have all over-70s and people classed as clinically extremely vulnerable given their first of two vaccinations against Covid-19, but told people they should wait to be invited for their appointment. Now, the NHS wants anyone over 70 or clinically extremely vulnerable who has not had their first jab to contact them to get vaccinated.
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Tags: complaints, continuous cruising, Coronavirus, Covid-19 vaccination, enforcement, Friends Families and Travellers, GP registration, Julian House, liveaboards, NHS, Travelling Community Support Service
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
The invitations to attend Coronavirus vaccination appointments for priority groups, which will include everyone over the age of 50, are being generated from the patient records held by doctors’ surgeries. Liveaboard boaters who are not registered with a GP may find that they are not contacted by the NHS with an invitation to have the Covid-19 vaccination.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Covid-19, Covid-19 vaccination, Friends Families and Travellers, GP registration, Health, Julian House, liveaboards, Travelling Community Support Service
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Monday, March 12th, 2018
Liveaboard boaters are invited to a Community Basic Life Support and Defibrillator training session in Great Bedwyn Village Hall, Frog Lane, Great Bedwyn on Thursday 15th March 2018 at 6.45pm for a 7.15pm start.
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Tags: community, defibrillator, GP registration, Great Bedwyn, Health, life support, Old School Surgery
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Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
The Gypsy, Traveller, Boater, Showman and Roma Health Survey that many boaters took part in last year has been published.
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Tags: BaNES, continuous cruising, GP registration, Health, Lifestyle, liveaboards, NHS, NHS access, NHS registration, research
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