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Islay & Jura residents’ ideas wanted on how their local health services should be provided
Residents of Islay ad Jura are being asked to say how they think health services to their islands should be provided. Local doctors, nurses, ambulance staff and surgery staff are all contributing their ideas. Argyll & Bute Community Health Partnership (CHP) also wants to hear from island residents including, of course, those who act as carers.
The Partnership wants the widest possible range of responses to help in identifying the key issues to shape an action plan.
They have an online questionnaire for anyone on Islay and Jura to complete and they are asking people to work through the questions carefully, giving the most accurate answer possible and ticking the appropriate boxes. They would also really welcome brief comments in spaces where they ask for these. Filling out the questionnaire takes about 15 minutes to complete.
The Partnership is also interested in setting up an ongoing Focus Group to discuss the health needs of the community. A Focus Group is a representative group of people which meets from time to time and whose members give their honest reactions to questions put to them by the person chairing each session.
Anyone interested in taking part in a focus group – or who needs a print version of the questionnaire should phone Carol Muir on 07826859124 or email her at carol.muir@nhs.net
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory retains decompression chamber
The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) has been awarded over £1.5 million by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), from March 2009 until 2014. This is designed to enable SAMS to continue hosting the national facility for scientific diving and the accompanying decompression chamber at Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory near Oban in Argyll.
The decompression (hyperbaric) chamber is one of four in Scotland which the NHS can use for emergency re-compression and recreational and commercial divers. Manager of the diving and decompression facility, Dr Martin Sayer says that the funding will ‘present a real opportunity to develop the facility further in a manner that assures its position as a woirldwide leader in the fields of scientific diving and hyperbaric research’.