Lincoln village GP offers its patients new walk-in service
Patients of the Glebe Practice in Saxilby near Lincoln will be able to access appointment-free morning walk-in clinics from next month. The new clinic will launch from December 1 for patients of the practice as well as registered patients at its branch site in Skellingthorpe. People can turn up at the Saxilby surgery between 8am…
The practice will see walk-in patients between 8am and 9.30am.
Patients of the Glebe Practice in Saxilby near Lincoln will be able to access appointment-free morning walk-in clinics from next month.
The new clinic will launch from December 1 for patients of the practice as well as registered patients at its branch site in Skellingthorpe.
People can turn up at the Saxilby surgery between 8am and 9.30am to add their name to a first come first served list to see the allocated GP.
The service will be for anyone with a problem that requires urgent medical attention, such as infections, sore throats, ear aches and rashes.
The practice hopes the new clinic will free-up pre-booked appointments for patients with other needs and relieve pressure on what they describe as increasingly congested phone lines.
Shirley Maddison, practice manager, said: “We have taken patient feedback on board regarding the appointment system and listened to what they have said.
“We have been finding that by the time patients with genuine acute problems manage to get through to us on the phone, there are no appointments left so we are looking at this scheme as a way of those with acute issues getting a fairer chance to be seen.
“I would stress to our patients that the walk-in clinic is not the only clinic we will be offering. Our routine clinics will still be running which we hope patients with longer-term, less urgent conditions will be able to make better use of.
“Our policy of children under five being seen on the same day if sick will also remain, even if they present to the practice outside of the 8am to 9.30am walk-in clinic timings.
“However, if they are ill in the morning, we would encourage you to bring them to the walk-in clinic.”
Karla Cooper, deputy practice manager, added: “We appreciate that some patients may face a wait to be seen, but this new clinic will offer those with an appropriate acute condition a guarantee that they will be seen.
“At the moment we have about 50 patients on the phone at 8am trying to get a same day appointment.
News of the service comes after the Lincolnshire West Clinical Commisioning Group unanimously agreed plans to close the Lincoln Walk-In-Centre on Monks Road after winter – currently open 8am until 8pm Monday to Sunday.
The CCG stated it would work to put alternative provisions in place.
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A man in his 20s was seriously injured after a crash on the B1397 Old Spalding Road in Wigtoft near Boston over the weekend.
Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash involving one vehicle – a blue Hyundai iX35 – shortly after 11pm on Saturday, March 6. The crash is believed to have occurred between 9pm-11pm.
The driver was seriously injured and taken to hospital.
Lincolnshire Police are appealing for witnesses and would like to speak to anyone who captured dashcam footage of the incident.
Anyone with information should contact police on 101 or via email at [email protected] quoting incident 489 of March 6.
Alternatively, it can be reported through the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online here.
There have been 643 new coronavirus cases and 31 COVID-related deaths in Greater Lincolnshire so far this week – compared to 1,005 cases and 26 deaths by this time last week.
The government’s COVID-dashboard on Friday recorded 79 new cases in Lincolnshire, 28 in North East Lincolnshire and 23 in North Lincolnshire.
The latest data takes the total number of cases in Greater Lincolnshire to over 54,000.
On Friday, seven deaths were registered in Lincolnshire. These include deaths both in and out of hospitals, as well as residents in hospitals outside the county.
NHS England reported six new local hospital deaths – five at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust and one at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust. This brings the total of hospital deaths so far this week to 24, a rise from 11 last week.
National cases increased by 5,947 to 4,207,304, while deaths rose by 236 to 124,261.
Nationally, Office for National Statistics data shows that the number of coronavirus infections in the UK continued to fall.
In the seven days up to February 27, around 280,000 people were confirmed positive, a drop of about a third on the most recent date.
The latest R number – the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to – is between 0.7 and 0.9.
From Monday, care home residents will be allowed to have a regular indoor visitor as long as they take a coronavirus lateral flow test before entry and wear personal protective equipment (PPE).
Hugging and kissing their relatives will be forbidden, although hand holding will be permitted.
Elsewhere, meeting up with one other person outdoors – for example sitting together in a park with coffee, drink, or picnic, will also be permitted.
Further relaxation is hoped to happen from March 29, when the rule of six will again be allowed, along with outdoor sports facilities reopening and the stay at home rule ending.
In a press conference on Friday evening health secretary Matt Hancock welcomed the news that a mystery person in the UK infected with the COVID variant of concern first found in Brazil had now been traced.
He said the ‘unbreakable link’ between cases, hospitalisation and deaths was ‘being broken’ due to the vaccine rollout – but added testing still remains ‘critical’.
Coronavirus data for Greater Lincolnshire on Friday, March 5
54,126 cases (up 130)
38,170 in Lincolnshire (up 79)
8,149 in North Lincolnshire (up 23)
7,807 in North East Lincolnshire (up 28)
2,105 deaths (up 7)
1,549 from Lincolnshire (up 7)
300 from North Lincolnshire (no change)
256 from North East Lincolnshire (no change)
of which 1,244 hospital deaths (up six)
772 at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (up five)
41 at Lincolnshire Community Health Service hospitals (no change)
1 at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (no change)
A Boston man who amassed a collection of thousand of illegal images after becoming addicted to downloading child abuse images was jailed at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday.
Howard Angel was arrested after police raided his home and took away a laptop computer.
Tony Stanford, prosecuting, said that the following day Angel went to Grantham Police Station and confessed.
“He said he had been stupid. He was interviewed. He was relatively frank. He said he wanted help.
“He said ‘I shouldn’t have done it but I did’. He said he became addicted and hooked on it.”
Mr Stanford said that later Angel’s then wife handed police a second laptop which she found in the attic.
When police examined the two laptops they found that Angel had been accessing child abuse images for nine years.
A total of 16,944 illegal images of children were on the devices including 2,641 in the most serious category.
Angel, 59, of Wyberton West Road, Boston, admitted three charges of making indecent images of children between March 2010 and May 2019.
He was jailed for 10 months and given a 15 year sexual harm prevention order. He was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.
Recorder Charles Falk, passing sentence, told him: “What tips the balance here is the length of time you have been offending which is nine years.
“That and the fact that this is a very large collection makes this a case that is so serious that only immediate custody can be justified.”
Michael Cranmer-Brown, in mitigation, said that Angel had lost everything as a result of what he did.
“When this came to light his world was turned upside down. He had been in a marriage for over 20 years. He has children. He has effectively been rejected by them all.
“He has been kicked out of his family home and he is now divorced from his wife. In addition he has suffered the loss of his job. Having disclosed to his employer about his conviction he has been sacked.”
Mr Cranmer-Brown said that since his arrest Angel has sought help and urged that he should not receive an immediate prison sentence.
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