The ElliottEar
The Newsletter Published by the Patients’ Association of the ElliottHall Medical Centre

Number 21 Reg Charity No:1048910 October 2003

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Contents: Chairman’s Report

Distribution of the ElliottEar

Transport Service

Carers’ Support Group

Accessible Transport
EHMC Website

Babble and Chat

Old Mobile Phones, Printer amd Toner Cartridges

Famous Names In Medicine

Link Up We All Need Friends
The Blue Badge Scheme
Ten and Twenty Years Flew By – Alan Byers’ Reminisces
Staff Changes at the Medical Centre

The ElliottEar - Funnies

CHAIRMAN'S REPORT

At the AGM held in May, Mr Victor Davis was confirmed as Honorary Treasurer, Mrs Janice Berry was re-elected as Secretary and I was re-elected as Chairman. After the formal business of the meeting and a break for coffee we had an update from Mr Robert Moore on the Harrow Primary Care Trust.

In the early part of this year the Association spent about £,2,700 on extra equipment for the surgery. On this occasion the aim was to assist the nursing staff with their work. I have received a letter of warmest thanks from Sister Helen Jenner. In addition, we purchased an operating table and several blood pressure machines to try to reduce the waiting time for these valuable self-help machines.

Our request for transport volunteers has produced a small number - my thanks to those who have volunteered. However we still need more for this and other aspects of our work - for instance, shopping and the social committee always need more help. More people are also required to deliver The EIIiottEar twice a year. Come on, please don't be backward in coming forward, pick up the phone and ring me or one of the coordinators whose telephone numbers appear on the back page of this Newsletter. You will always be welcome at Babble and Chat held every Tuesday afternoon from 12.45 to 2.45 at Saddlers Mead Clubhouse. Please ring Lisa Harvey for further details.

This is our tenth anniversary year and I say a big THANK YOU to everyone who has helped the Association in any way during that time. Now we must look to the next ten years, and to enable us to continue we need you - please come forward to offer your help to save us having to make such frequent appeals for more assistance.

YOUR ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOU!

Cyril Flood Chairman

A VERY BIG THANKS AND STILL

A PLEA FOR MORE!

As the stalwart deliverers of the April issue of The EIIiottEar will know, there was panic in my voice when I phoned to say that the newsletters had arrived and please could you get them out very quickly, preferably today or tomorrow! The urgency was the need to let as many people as possible know about the AGM coming up in the near future. Some teething troubles meant delays, and my going away on holiday a few days after the printer delivered 3000 copies to my home did not help, and may have justified the panic when it dawned on me just what I had taken on! But we managed. Family, friends and neighbours rallied round and helped, some press-ganged admittedly, and I am very grateful to them and to the regulars who had not assumed - as there had been talk of the newsletter discontinuing - that their services were no longer required. So a very grateful thanks to you all.

BUT sadly and inevitably a few have had to fall by the wayside and so I am issuing this plea for any possible deliverers who might be out there waiting and willing and as yet untapped! My theory is that if more people delivered maybe just 30 newsletters, fewer people would be burdened with delivering larger numbers. And the more deliverers there are could also mean fewer newsletters needing to be posted, thus saving money.

However, I can let you know that we do have definite vacancies in the Carpenders Park area (about 36 houses) and there is also a small number to do (10 perhaps) on the South Oxhey side of the railway. There are some very large rounds in Hatch End which I'm sure the present deliverers would be very happy to split!

Finally, for those wondering what they could be taking on, there is little more involved than locating the appropriate house or apartment number and finding the letter box. No money to collect, generally no knocking on doors (unless perhaps an entry door to a block of flats or nursing home~, and the bonus is - the exercise factor! Walking is supposed to be very good for us and even some steps and stairs could use different muscles and all for free. Think how much you could be saving on gym costs and improving your health in one go! So do please think about it - give me a ring and tell me that you would really love to help. just a little bit of your time, twice a year - April and October. Come on, you know you can do it.

I shall be waiting for the phone to ring and hope I won't be disappointed.

Hilary N. Morgan

Transport Service

Aim: To provide transport for patients to the Medical

Centre and local hospitals

Co-ordinators:
David and Pat James

Operation: The system is operated by volunteers at the Medical Centre on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Patients are asked to ring them at those times to book their journeys. Please note that drivers do not take bookings. In the event of emergency appointments, patients should contact David and Pat James.

The charge: This remains the same: £2.00 for a return journey to the Medical Centre and £5.00 for a return journey to a hospital.

In response to the appeal in the last edition of The EIIiottEar we now have three new drivers operating, and we are very grateful to them for volunteering.

If there are any more patients who feel they can help, please contact David and Pat James who will be very pleased to hear from them.

Once again, many thanks from all concerned to the present drivers, and to Rita, Norma and Marcia who take the calls at the surgery.

David and Pat James

Carers' Support Group

The Carer's Group continues to meet in members' homes on the third Thursday of each month, from 10.30 am to 12 noon.

If you are a carer and would benefit from airing and sharing your problems with people in a similar position, do come along and join us. We also have members who have been carers, but whose loved ones have sadly passed away. Their experiences and knowledge are invaluable to those still coping with the caring process.

The evening Carers Group is not meeting at the moment as insufficient members were able to attend. If you are a carer and would benefit from getting together with other carers who for various reasons cannot manage a daytime meeting, please get in touch with either Beryl or Anne.

For further information, or perhaps to receive a home visit if you cannot attend the meetings, please telephone either Beryl Peacop or Anne Flood .

Accessible Transport

DaRT is a registered charity which campaigns for a public transport system fully accessible to all.

Dial-a-Ride. If you are unable to use public transport because of a disability, you may be entitled to register with West London Dial-a-Ride, who provide transport for people with disabilities, including wheelchair users.

Taxicard. The Taxicard scheme allows Londoners with a mobility impairment, which prevents them from using buses and trains, to travel in the contractor's licensed radio taxis - black cabs – at subsidised rates.

For further information and application forms please contact Anne Flood or DaRT, Room 210, Colourworks, 2 Abbot Street, London E8 3DP; telephone 7241 2111 .

ELLIOTT HALL MEDICAL CENTRE WEBSITE

Website Address: www.EHMC.co.uk

Soon after the April issue of The EIIiottEar the great amount of activity at EHMC to finalise an initial standard of website design led to the website being published in late May 2003.

It seems we are getting about nine hundred "visits" per month, which is a good start.

There will be a continuing update of contents with special mention being made of changes within the Practice and the highlighting of reminders of future events by use of eye-catching dynamic displays.

The aim of this website is:

- To provide an overview of the surgery structure, and a source of information for
patients wishing to know more about the surgery.

- To offer information and guidelines on healthy living.

- To provide health information from clinicians on how to manage common

complaints and common illnesses.

- To provide an easier and more efficient way for patients to have common

queries answered.

- To include principal articles taken from past publications of The EIIiottEar.

Of special interest on the website is the section entitled "Links". The medical websites contained therein, covering a wide range of medical conditions, is a way of helping people seek bona fide information by way of hyperlinks to support organisations dealing with, for example,

Drug Problems, Depression, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and so on; the emphasis here on being able to find good information when there is so much inappropriate information to be found elsewhere. In the event of patients coming across good sources of information that could be added to our list of links, please let us know for consideration by the Practice.

In general what is rather essential is to have feedback from those who peruse the website. Comments and suggestions will be gratefully received and acted upon by the Clinicians and Administration.

Please note that feedback should be sent to :

Webmster@EHMC.co.uk

Babble and Chat

Babble and Chat is a parent/carer and baby/toddler group which meets weekly. We provide the opportunity for adults and children to get together for a chat, to play and to have a cuppa.

Babble and Chat meets every Tuesday afternoon, 12.45pm to 2.45pm, in The Clubhouse, situated in Saddler's Mead Park, off Clonard Way, Hatch End. A leaflet with more information about the group, and a map, are available on the Patients' Association notice board in the waiting room at the surgery.

You can contact Lisa by e-mail : harvey_family@hotmail.com

We look forward to meeting you.

Lisa Harvey and Carole Lesser

Old Mobile Phones, Printer

and Toner Cartridges

Many thanks to all who have brought any of the above to the surgery following the appeal in the last edition of The EIIiottEar. We have already been able to take a large number to Carers UK in London. Carers UK is the umbrella organisation which looks after the interests of Carers. It campaigns vigorously for better recognition of the work carers do, and for improved benefits and conditions for them throughout the UK. Our own Carers' Support Group is a member of Carers UK.

The recycling company has now given us a large box which will be kept at the surgery for the collection of used phones and cartridges, and better still they will collect the box when it is full.

We hope that you will continue to deposit all the above items at the surgery so that they can be recycled, thus not only raising funds for the work of Carers UK but also providing phones for use in areas of the world where landlines are not available.

FAMOUS NAMES IN MEDICINE

THOMAS DIMSDALE

The single improvement in practical medicine in the 18th century that decisively saved lives was no doubt the introduction, first of inoculation, then of vaccination, against smallpox.

In a bad epidemic of smallpox, about 40 per cent of those infected died. Inoculation was carried out by inserting, into a vein or under the skin, a minute amount of pus from a smallpox pustule obtained from a patient suffering from the disease. The aim was to induce a mild dose of smallpox and then to confer lifelong immunity, without pock-marking. It was a very risky procedure because there was always the possibility of a severe or even fatal attack.

Thomas Dimsdale was born near Hertford in 1712. He studied medicine at St Thomas' Hospital and practised in Hertford. He gained a reputation for his work on inoculation for smallpox, and this was brought to the attention of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, who in 1768 commissioned him to inoculate her and her son.

Dimsdale travelled through Europe to St Petersburg, a hazardous and uncomfortable journey by coach over rough roads. It must have taken him several weeks to make a round journey of more than 3,000 miles. His inoculations were successful.

Thomas Dimsdale is famous because he received probably the largest fee ever paid to a doctor - a pension of £500 per annum, a fee of £12,000, title of Baron of the Empire, Counsellor of State and Physician to the Queen. My accountant reckons that £12,000 in 1768 = £12 million in today's money, and £500 = £50,000. His son, who accompanied him on the journey, received a gold snuff-box set with diamonds.

In 1796 inoculation was superseded by vaccination. Edward ]enner (see The EIIiottEar, April 1997, p. 18), learned that cowpox (vaccinia), a mild contagion of cows, could be transferred to the hands of milkers, and those who caught it became immune to smallpox. He injected cowpox matter into a boy, who was later shown to have become immune to smallpox infection. Vaccination against smallpox was soon adopted in most countries. After a campaign conducted by the World Health Organization, smallpox was eradicated world-wide in 1980.

Leslie Morton

LINK UP - WE ALL NEED FRIENDS
A little over 20 years ago, a businessman by the name of John Seymour started a friendship scheme in Harrow for a few people with learning disabilities. The idea had been sparked by a Catholic Church outreach course he had recently attended at St Joseph's Pastoral Centre in Hendon.
The early '80s were a time that saw the closure of most of the remaining long-stay mental hospitals; in fact largely because of their appearance some of them were then still referred to as mental asylums. These were mostly stark, forbidding and inhospitable structures outside and in, and "home" to people with both mental illness as well as learning disability.
This basically meant that those people who were considered not to be a serious danger to the community were to be re-housed in either specially purchased or purpose-built houses, usually within the same catchment area in which they had been hospitalised.
Following the course he had attended, John Seymour soon became aware that something needed to be done urgently which would help the integration of these very confused and bewildered people not only into their local neighbourhood, but also into the wider community around them. In order to achieve this, he realised that public fears and prejudices would somehow need to be addressed, and what better way than through a volunteer friendship scheme that would enable both sides of the friendships to share interests that were mutually appealing. With the co-operation of the staff carers, the proposed friendships could begin slowly in the home with fairly regular visits from the volunteers, and then, as relationships developed and mutual trust was gained, shared activities outside the home could be considered.
John gathered together a few like-minded friends and acquaintances, and placed his proposal before the manager of a local residential care home. It was agreed to put it to the test, and after a short induction course a group of volunteer friends was formed to begin visiting and getting to know the residents in their home environment. It proved to be an enormous success and the residents were soon eagerly awaiting the next visits from their newfound friends. After making special provision for the degree of disability, a regular programme of outings was arranged to wildlife and other parks, gardens, shows, canal boats, etc. A similar organisation and group of volunteers was then set up for another residential care home in the area.
Encouraged by these initial successes, John began to address the difficulties being faced by those people living in their family home. With the encouragement and support of the team at St Joseph's Pastoral Centre, together with some newly recruited and remarkably gifted volunteers from a North Harrow church community, a new group was formed called "Friends for Friends". This new group focused entirely on forming 1 :1 friendships between the person with the learning disability and a trained volunteer. Once again it proved to be highly successful, not only making a big difference in the lives of those with learning disabilities, but once the friendship and trust had developed, it also had the added bonus of providing some much needed respite for family carers.
The success of these friendship schemes quickly began to elicit more and more requests for volunteer friends, and a further group was established for another residential care home. With four groups all needing constant attention, it became apparent that John could not expect to cope without additional help. His initial single project had become a growing organisation, so he assembled yet another group of volunteers to act as trustees and it was decided to give it the name Link Up. Charitable status was applied for and granted, thus enabling John to obtain the necessary funds to provide a small single-room office in Pinner and the part-time services of an administrator and a volunteer co-ordinator.
The name Link Up remained until a few years ago when it became the company limited by guarantee now known as Community Link Up. It is not and never has been a church-based organisation, even though the original inspiration came from such a source. John's policy of reaching out to people of all faiths or none and to all cultures is still adhered to today, but wherever possible we try to support our members in following their particular beliefs.
John retired about four years ago when Link Up obtained its first grant from the National Lottery, sufficient to acquire the services of a paid full-time director, a job that John had carried out voluntarily for about sixteen years. He is now in his 75th year, but still remains active as a volunteer with his own friend. It is a tribute to John that several of the 1:1 friendships have actually been in existence for more than twelve years.
The work that he started continues to grow, but always with the same focus on fun, friendship and enjoying each other's company. With about 200 volunteers Link Up has become widely respected, not only in Harrow but also in the wider community. However, with so many charities around today that depend almost entirely on voluntary workers, it is becoming more and more difficult to attract the sort of people who would make suitable and committed volunteers. Also, the majority of people are working longer hours, and so have less free time to give to outside interests. A volunteer force of 200 sounds impressive, but with the added perspective of a waiting list numbering over 100 people, it becomes clear just how desperate we are to find more willing helpers.

What surprises most people is to learn that becoming a Link Up volunteer does not necessarily mean a big time commitment. Indeed some of our volunteers give 1-2 hours of their time once or twice a month, and for this small investment the return is truly enormous. In enabling someone with a learning disability to do things that most of us take for granted, you can bring about a really positive change in their life. Whether it be a visit to the local shops or cinema, or something as simple as a cup of tea and a chat, you could make a big difference in somebody's life.
Becoming part of the Link Up family is certainly one of the most rewarding areas of voluntary service, and it's a great way to meet lots of interesting people from all walks of life. You will be trained and supported, and you will make lots of new friends. So if you can spare just a little of your time, or you would simply like to know more, we really would appreciate you contacting Rizwana or John:

Telephone: 8868 5808

E-mail: rizwana.linkup@ptstream.co.uk or john.linkup@ptstream.co.uk

THE BLUE BADGE SCHEME

What is the Blue Badge Scheme?

The Scheme - which is effectively a replacement for the Orange Badge Scheme - provides a national arrangement of parking concessions for people with severe walking difficulties who travel either as drivers or passengers.The Scheme also applies to registered blind people, and people with very severe upper limb disabilities. It allows badge holders to park close to their destination, but the national concessions apply only to on-street parking.

You can get a badge if:

- You receive the higher rate of the mobility component of the Disability
Living Allowance

- You receive a War Pensioner's Mobility Supplement

- You use a motor vehicle supplied for disabled people by a Government
Health Department
- You are registered blind

- You have a permanent and substantial disability that means you are
unable to walk or have very considerable difficulty in walking. In this case
you may be asked to answer a series of questions to help the local
authority determine whether you are eligible for a badge
- You have a severe disability in both upper arms, regularly drive a motor
vehicle but cannot turn the steering wheel by hand even if that wheel is
fitted with a turning knob

Where to apply

If you think you maybe entitled to a badge you should apply to the Social Services Department where you can collect a form, or they will send you one.

Harrow 020 8424 1352
Hertfordshire 01992 555 555
Hillingdon 01 895 250111
Your local authority will decide whether you are eligible for a badge.

Photographs

The Blue Badge Scheme is a two-sided card with space for a photograph of the badge holder on the back.
Your application should be accompanied by two reasonably recent photographs which you should sign on the back.

Where the Scheme does not apply.
The scheme does not apply
- On private roads
- In off-street car parks
- In certain town centres where access is prohibited or limited to vehicles
with special permits issued locally
- In Central London, although some facilities are provided. If you are
planning to visit Central London and intend to use your badge you may
wish to check first with the authorities concerned. More information
about parking in London for Blue Badge Holders can be obtained from
the Transport Committee for London on 020 7747 4700.
- On the road systems at some airports. You should therefore contact the
airport concerned in advance to check the parking arrangements.

Further details are available from the Department for Transport. They are also available in Braille, large print and audio-tape formats.

Department for Transport

Disability Policy Branch, Mobility and Inclusion Unit

Zone 1 / 18, Great Minster House
176 Marsham Street
London SW l P 4DR
Tel: 020 7944 2914

E-mail: www.mobility-unit.dft.gov.uk

Sister Helen Jenner

10 AND 24 YEARS FLEW BY!
ALAN BYERS’ REMINISCES

As I have known many of you for so many years, I thought I would reminisce with you a little.

1st January 1980 was the date I started off in our practice, and 1st January 1980 was the date I gave up smoking. Ever since, most of my life has been made up of doctoring at this surgery, family life and music.

1980 was clearly a key year in my existence as I also became (honorary) choirmaster of the Radlett and Bushey Reform synagogue at that time, and have remained so ever since. Other music for me has mostly involved horn playing, in various amateur chamber groups and since 2003 also in the Watford Philharmonic Orchestra.

My wife Carmel is a senior social work lecturer at Hertfordshire University on the Hatfield campus, doing her MA later in life. Our 25-year-old son David obtained a 1st Class Honours degree in Middle Eastern History at Manchester University, and is now a political editor in Parliament for the Midland region of the Northcliffe group of newspapers. Our 17-year-old twins are also thriving: I expect Michael to be successful in business and Anna to make a living out of art and music. Her singing is beautiful, and both she and Carmel sing in our synagogue choir.

In 1999 I compiled a book about my late mother's life entitled Bronia - From Auschwitz to Hampstead, which I have not marketed as it was really written mainly for relatives/descendants. In 2002 I removed my moustache at Michael's insistence and lost three stone in weight by exercise and reducing my carbohydrate intake. It was in fact a patient who put me on to it, namely Alan Morgan who, along with his brother (they run CMS Weighing Equipment, Camden) supplies the surgery with our weighing equipment. You have just read the CV of my life since 1980!

It has always been a privilege to share some critical moments in your lives. Twenty four years transcend over a generation and I have observed toddlers becoming adults, younger adults becoming older adults, some succumbing to illnesses before their time, and lots of others living out their days to "a ripe old age". My work in this practice has been endlessly fascinating, and I am always surprised by how often people say things to me that I have never heard before. If I walk through Hatch End, I recognize at least 20 per cent of the people I pass in the street, and that is a special sort of feeling. It can also be useful when driving if I am trying to turn into the Uxbridge Road from a side road, as a familiar face often lets me through!

I can see lots of lovely people passing through my mind after they have passed away, and I cling on to their memory. I find myself missing many who have died, whom I had grown to know and appreciate through the years - almost like a flash of mourning. I have found everyone remarkably brave in facing illnesses, and wonder if I would be half so brave about the illnesses if I had them myself. If patients

must be ill, I always want to help them to feel better and recover right away, if not sooner! That's what I want to do most as a doctor.

What do I like least about my work? - being swamped by paperwork. However, I can drink most people under the table when it comes to weak teas / coffees - and this "skill" helps with the paperwork!

My partner Chris jenner, from the time he joined us in 1989, did an extraordinarily good job of spearheading the project of building our new medical centre in 1993 and our extension in 1998. Chris wrote about our friend the late Ivan Tomlin in the last EIIiottEar; Ivan gave us so much help with this project, without remuneration. Also, completely unpaid, Arthur Peacop, whom many of you will know as a local architect and builder, was a great inspiration to us and advised us during our transition from 118 Uxbridge Road, where we shared our surgery with a dentist upstairs, across the road to where we are now. Our professional architect Bob Lamb did a wonderful job beyond the call of duty in overseeing our new building and later extension.

I know many of you will remember 1 Randolph Court, at 11 The Avenue, Hatch End, which was our surgery before 118 Uxbridge Road, where I joined Elizabeth James, who was senior partner until 1996. Her husband David James is still our financial manager. 1980 was our last year at Randolph Court. Elizabeth had assisted and then succeeded George McLaren, who died of lung cancer in 1978. 1 never met George McLaren, but heard a lot about his kind Scottish manner, so I felt as though I had almost known him.

Esther Gillett was our practice administrator/ manager for twenty-five years and I still see her. She always had a remarkable memory for patients' and the staff's family structure and social history, a talent to some extent later taken over by Reena Majus, who joined us in 1996 when Elizabeth James retired! Beryl Jardine is our longest-lasting receptionist and still works with us after thirty years. Beryl has recently rejoiced over the birth of her first grandchild, Alice May. Congratulations!

We have had lots of lovely dedicated people working in our surgery over the years, and at present we have a particularly good mix of administrative staff and clinicians at EHMC. The most amazing thing about our Centre of course is our Patients' Association. Formed in 1993 it has done a most wonderful job. Mention of some of its activities in this magazine does not really do our PA justice. Beryl Peacop chaired it so ably for its first six years, and Cyril Flood has been our excellent chairman ever since. It was a pleasure to meet up with some of the volunteers again at the annual volunteers' tea party, this year held in the garden of the home of Pam Bertolotti. Our EHMCPA has lasted for ten years and is still going strong. Happy lOth Anniversary! Long may it continue!

Ten years is also the number of years that we have been a training practice. We started with GP registrars and moved on to

GP PRHOS (Pre-Registration House Officers) and medical students. Many of you have helped us in this training/teaching and we thank you very much for that.

We are happy that our 1Oth Anniversary coincides with the successful launch of our new EHMC Website, with especial thanks to our librarian patient volunteers, Peter Baggs and Marcia Thorley, and also to our Admin team, Laura & Ann Knight and Carole Dixey. Yes, Ann and Laura are mother and daughter, and it is very rare to find a team where mother and daughter work together! Not so rare, but still rather unusual, are the husband and wife, Chris and Helen Jenner. Helen broke new ground for us when she became a Nurse Practitioner, a qualification that she passed with distinction.

We all need to strive to maximize the quality of each others' lives in harmony and mutual respect, and in sickness and in health!

Alan Byers

STAFF CHANGES AT
ELLIOTT HALL MEDICAL CENTRE

New District Nursing Sister at Elliott Hall

Hello! My name is Lauren Berry and from August I have been the new District Nursing Sister for the surgery. I qualified as a nurse in 1989, and have had experience of working in Mount Vernon and Hillingdon hospitals, prior to moving to the community in 1997. I have a special interest in nursing older people, and strive to ensure that all patients receive an equitable standard of care.

The role of the District Nurse has become more complex over the years, as the aim of the New NHS is to provide more care in the community, and wherever possible avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. We are supported by a nursing team, and have access to other professionals within the Primary Care Trust. The main function of the District Nurse is to provide a nursing service to those who, for a number of reasons, may be unable to attend the surgery. To see a District Nurse you will require a referral from your GP, and after that you will be contacted so that a visit can be arranged. .

I look forward to working with the Elliott Hall team in the future, and hope to ensure that the excellent standards of nursing care that are already provided will continue for many years to come.

Lauren Berry

Staff Changes
There have been some changes over the past six months, and we wish every success to those who have moved on and welcome those joining us.

We have said our fond farewells to Dr Suren Naidoo, who moved to a partnership in Barnet in July. Mrs Denise Lavey joined us in August.

Sister Jane Lewis has also said goodbye, as she is relocating to the Midlands.

Dr Elena Khamzina finished her registrar training with us in July and has moved to live in the USA, where her husband is based. Dr Reena Davda was our PreRegistration House Officer (PRHO) between April and August, and has moved on to a post in a hospital in Luton. Dr Nazia Kausar joined as PRHO in August on a four-month placement.

There have also been changes in the Reception team. Julie Cockburn left in June to work with a local vet (Is this going up in the world? Ed.) and two new receptionists were recruited: Joanne Smith and Pinaki Ondhia (who left a little while ago). Beryl Jardine is now helping us out in times of staff shortage, as well as continuing her volunteer work.

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