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Family-run The Pet Vet will open a new surgery at the Carlton Centre in Lincoln on Friday.

The ribbon to officially open the new 5,500 square foot independent surgery will be cut by members of Lincoln City Football Club at 2.30pm on Friday, October 29. Local animal charities and businesses, and even the fire service, will attend the opening day.

The Lincoln surgery is fully equipped with seven consultation rooms, three operating theatres, a dental theatre, and imaging suite, separate dog and cat words, and vast amounts of parking.

The Pet Vet already has established surgeries in Barnsley, Doncaster, and Rotherham, with Lincoln part of a plan to expand across the region. The surgeries are all equipped with the latest technology, including CT scanning capabilities.

In addition to general practise and preventative healthcare, The Pet Vet also offers advanced care in orthopaedics, soft tissue surgery and dentistry.

The Lincoln surgery is offering all new customers a free first consultation and half price vaccinations until the end of 2021.

A care home near Lincoln will close due to difficulties recruiting care and management staff.

The Old Rectory in Saxilby, which was rated ‘Good’ this year by the Care Quality Commission, is in the process of rehoming the 18 residents before it closes its doors.

It is working with Lincolnshire County Council officials to do so.

Some 32 staff, and remaining residents, were informed of the decision this week. Some staff will move to the sister home Wispington House Care Home in the village.

Owners, who have run the facility since 2012, said continuous pressures on recruiting care staff and management positions made it impossible to stay open.

Owner Brij Patel said during the past two years there has been “a rise in external influences which have made it increasingly difficult to sustain high standards – with the near impossibility of recruiting and retaining care and management staff compounded by Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.”

“We have worked tirelessly during the 18 past months to overcome various difficulties,” he said. “But regrettably, unsuccessfully, and now unfortunately this has left us in a position without any alternative but to close the home.

“This is not a decision that we took lightly, and we fully appreciate that this will come as a shock and disappointment to our staff, our residents and their loved ones. We are however, committed to manage the process as smoothly and fairly as possible.

“We can now focus our staff, resources and expertise on Wispington House and ensure that we deliver the quality of care the residents and their families deserve.”

The decision comes days after the Care Quality Commission released a report revealing that health and social care services are “under greater strain than ever”.

The report said care workers are suffering under a tidal wave of “anxiety, stress, exhaustion and burnout” post COVID-19.

Across England, numbers of unfilled jobs are rising month on month, the researchers found, from 6% in April to more than 10% in September.

The Government recently announced a new £162.5 million workforce retention and recruitment fund to bolster the dedicated care workforce – but critics say it may too little too late.

Covid rates in northern Lincolnshire are remaining steady despite rises in many other parts of the country.

However, some neighbourhoods are still much higher than others.

In the latest figures, Laceby Acres & Wybers Wood was the area with the highest rate in North East Lincolnshire (671 per 100,000.)

Scartho in Grimsby was the lowest (132 per 100,000) according to the government’s official map.

North Lincolnshire’s highest area was Goxhill (822 per 100,000) while Scunthorpe North was the lowest (244 per 100,000).

North East Lincolnshire’s overall rate is 366 cases per 100,000 residents, which is up two per cent on the previous week.

However, North Lincolnshire’s is 407 per 100,000, which is a 17 per cent decrease.

Here are the individual rates for each neighbourhood in our area.

North East Lincolnshire

Cleethorpes Beacon Hill – 340 per 100,000

Cleethorpes Haverstoe – 144 per 100,000

Cleethorpes North– 317 per 100,000

Cleethorpes West – 132 per 100,000

Great Coates & The Willows – 313 per 100,000

Grimsby East Marsh – 626 per 100,000

Grimsby West Marsh – 344 per 100,000

Holme Hill – 132 per 100,000

Humberston – 267 per 100,000

Immingham & Habrough – 307 per 100,000

Laceby Acres & Wybers Wood – 671 per 100,000

Laceby, Healing & Stallinborough – 455 per 100,000

Littlefield North – 385 per 100,000

Littlefield South & Grange – 357 per 100,000

New Clee – 414 per 100,000

New Waltham – 132 per 100,000

Nunsthorpe – 357 per 100,000

Scartho – 132 per 100,000

Sidney Park – 198 per 100,000

Waltham & East Ravendale – 385 per 100,00

Wellow – 424 per 100,000

Weelsby & Old Clee – 423 per 100,000

Yarborough – 460 per 100,000

North Lincolnshire

Barnetby, Ulceby, and Killingholme – 294 per 100,000

Barton-upon-Humber – 543 per 100,000

Brigg & South Ferriby – 520 per 100,000

Broughton & Appleby – 520 per 100,000

Burton-upon-Stather, Alkborough & Gunness – 485 per 100,000

Crowle & Keadby – 359 per 100,000

Epworth & Bracon – 452 per 100,000

Goxhill, Barrow & New Holland – 822 per 100,000

Kirton & Hibaldstow – 535 per 100,000

Messingham & Scawby – 296 per 100,000

Scunthorpe Ashby – 299 per 100,000

Scunthorpe Berkeley – 401 per 100,000

Scunthorpe Bottesford – 330 per 100,000

Scunthorpe Central & Crosby – 407 per 100,000

Scunthorpe Central Park – 321 per 100,000

Scunthorpe Frodingham – 363 per 100,000

Scunthorpe Lakeside – 248 per 100,000

Scunthorpe Lincoln Gardens – 328 per 100,000

Scunthorpe North – 224 per 100,000

Scunthorpe Westcliff – 297 per 100,000

Scunthorpe Yaddlethorpe – 333 per 100,000

Westwoodside, Haxley & Owston Ferry – 374 per 100,000

Winterton & Winteringham – 526 per 100,000