Welcome to Wyre Forest,
North Worcestershire
Contact
01562 823 581
Please use this answer-phone service to contact our office. You can also make contact with specific Councillors via the phone / e.mail details on <Councillors>E.mail
Please use talk2us@healthconcern.org.uk to send a message. It will either be replied to directly or acknowledged & forwarded to the appropriate person.Fax
Yes; we still use the jolly-old fax - it cannot be hacked the way these new-fangled systems can. Our number is 01562 77 00 11
Your ‘Health Concern’ Party
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The Premier Independent political party in Wyre Forest
The Wyre Forest area of north Worcestershire is the home of independent political thought - having been represented in Parliament for two terms (ten years) by the Independent M.P. Dr. Richard Taylor M.B.E.Representing Wyre Forest people
The party works at Wyre Forest District and local Town and Parish levels with Councillors on the Bewdley, Kidderminster and Stourport-on-Severn town councils.Not just a ‘Single Issue’ party
Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern is NOT just a ‘single issue’ party but a grouping of independent representatives of the people; taking on-board all manner of local problems (and solving them) and local aspirations (and aiding in their delivery). It grew out of the projected closure of Kidderminster Hospital (to which so many had contributed with fund-raising). This prompted mass protest and street parades and, ultimately, the rejection of the sitting Labour MP - a junior Minister. The party remains fundamentally concerned with the provision of health facilities and the delivery of all that results in ‘good health’ it is associated with concern for all aspects of a healthy community - education for all ages, support for the disabled and the elderly, transport, arts and entertainment, nature and the environment.STATISTICS
as per 24 th February 2021of LOCKDOWN UK
Tests 84,392,344 Positive tests (to date) 4,144,577 Mortalities: 135,613 UK Deaths (per day) 442 People vaccinated - 1st dose 18,242,873 (as of 23 February 2021) - 2nd dose 669,105 Worcestershire cases 30,983 Worcestershire deaths 756 Wyre Forest cases 5,076 Worcester City cases 5,524 Wolverhampton cases 23,629 Sandwell cases 32,072 Dudley cases 25,227 Birmingham cases 95,386 The Acute Hospital Trust covers Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Evesham Community Hospital as well as the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch and Kidderminster Hospital.
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NHS - GOV.UK advice
If you have any coronavirus symptoms:
•
a high temperature
•
a new, continuous cough
•
a loss of, or change to, your sense of smell or taste
Get a test and stay at home
1 in 3 people who have the virus have no symptoms, so you could be spreading
it without knowing it.
Continent in Chaos
FRANCE Urgent talks are underway to reopen the border after Paris suspended all travel links with the UK on Sunday night, throwing as much as 20% of Britain’s imports from the Continent into turmoil. The French President has introduced the requirement for all lorry-drivers to have a clear test result for Covid before proceeding onto the continent to prevent the spread of the new Covid strain. This will cause massive tailbacks in Dover, transport chiefs said – ultimately risking shortages on shops’ shelves and on factory floors on both sides of the Channel. SPAIN In a fifth night of clashes, protesters threw bottles at police, set fire to containers and smashed up shops in Barcelona on Saturday after Pablo Hasel, a Catalan musician, was arrested by the police to serve a prison sentence this week for “offensive lyrics” .. while Isabel Medina, an 18-year-old "fascist influencer" was allowed to march in Madrid just days before to deliver a highly antisemitic speech. As Hasel was preparing to barricade himself inside a university building in his Catalan home city of Lleida to avoid arrest, Ms Medina was taking part in an authorised march to pay homage to the dead from the Blue Division, soldiers sent by the Spanish dictator General Franco to fight for Hitler in Russia. GERMANY Such is the extreme ‘Fake News’ in German social-media that Hospitals are refusing to give the ‘Astra-Zeneca’ vaccine to people because i) it is believed ineffective for over- 65s.. or ii) it is actually harmful. Ambulance workers unions are turning it down and State legislatures are advising against its use. 80% of the 6,100,000 doses of the ‘Oxford’ vaccine remain in German medical fridges. A single jab of either Pfizer or Oxford-AstraZenca vaccine is giving 90 % protection in a huge boost to Britain's world-beating rollout... but don't tell Merkel and Macron that the ‘Oxford’ one works even better on the over-70s. And now Germany closes its borders with Austria and the Czech Republic (well, that makes a change) and, together with Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Finland & Sweden, is being threatened with legal sanctions by their ‘beloved’ EU. AUSTRIA 500 Viennese hospital staff objected to having the ‘Oxford’ vaccine rather than the Pfizer. _____________________ There seems a near hysterical reaction by people in some countries - where predicted “reaction” symptoms manifest themselves (known as the ‘Nocebo effect’). _____________________
The
Council’s
budget-setting
meeting
has
been adjourned to Monday 1
st
March.
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Councillor
Ballinger
,
leader
of
the
ruling
“Progressive
Alliance”
grouping
on
the
Wyre
Forest
District
Council
announced
a
new
appointment
to
his
cabinet
at
Wednesday’s
meeting_
Cllr
Mary
Rayner
takes
over
the
Finance
portfolio.
Cllr
Anna
L’Huillier
takes
Mary’s
place
as
chairman
of
the
council’s
Ethics
and
Standards
Committee.
He
also
took
the
opportunity
to
inform
the
Council
of
his
plan
to
stand
aside
as
leader
at
the
council’s
annual
general
meeting
later
this
year
in
May
-
fully
intending
to
remain
as
a
councillor,
as
a
member
of
the
Progressive
Alliance,
and
as
a
member
of
‘Health
Concern’.
<NEWS>
A
new
Government
campaign
has
launched
urging
Britons
to
stay
home
for
the
time
being
while
vaccines
are
rolled
out
and
full lockdown restrictions remain.
The
campaign,
which
will
air
for
the
first
time
on
ITV
(24
th
February),
will
feature
prominently
across
television,
radio
and
social media.
Viewers are told that
“every sacrifice, every day at home, every covered face – everything we're doing is helping stop
the spread of Covid-19.
Let's keep going.”
