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Barn Dance – 6 July
Saturday 6th July at Glenbervie Farm Barn by kind permission of Richard and Mary Tulloch in aid of the Village Hall
Doors open 7pm
Bring your own feast
Invite you’re your friends and family to join for a fun-packed evening
Music and dancing to the Higgledy Piggledy Band
Paying Bar and Raffle
Tickets Adult £15 / Children 16 or less £8 per person in advance from cullens135@gmail.com
Prize for the best-dressed banquet table
Tables can seat 4-14 people
Where do I look for local news on the internet?
We have several sites where you can find Wing news on the internet.
We use “appropriate technology” to reach the widest audience.
The “master site” is the Wing Community website wingrutland.uk
All articles that are posted to the Wing Community website are also automatically posted to the Facebook page “Wing Community” and Twitter “@wingrutlanduk” but they are removed periodically by Facebook and Twitter.
There is also a local neighbourhood site Nextdoor.
(There is also a closed Facebook “Wing Community Group” but that is not used very much now we have Nextdoor.)
Nextdoor is like a simple Facebook with few functions other than posting and replying to messages, which as also sent to your email address. But it is the most heavily used of all the message facilities because it is so simple and, unlike the Wing Community website, any member can post or send a private message to anyone else in their neighbourhood.
You can get more details here , everything you wanted to know but never dared ask!
But remember there is always the Rutland Water Beneface Magazine, aka the Parish Mag, for those residents who don’t have nor don’t want to have the internet or just want to savour the news in printed form.
All these sources are edited by the same staff – me.
John Oakley
New Urgent Care Opening Times At Oakham Hospital
For people outside of Leicester city – in Leicestershire county and in Rutland – there are urgent care centres. These offer a range of treatment for minor illnesses and injuries including, cuts, stomach upsets, burns and strains. You will be seen by an experienced nurse, without an appointment. You do not need to be registered to attend these services. X-ray is available at some locations. There are five such centres in Leicestershire and Rutland.
New opening hours for urgent care services in East Leicestershire and Rutland
From 1 April 2019, urgent care services will be open for longer. When GP surgeries close at 6:30pm, the urgent care services will open, making it much clearer for patients where to go, and when. The change also brings much greater efficiency and reduces overlap in hours between GP surgeries and urgent care services.
From the same date, these new opening hours also apply to the new Enderby Urgent Care Centre, based at Enderby Leisure Centre.
The new opening times are listed below.
| Area | Location | Weekdays | Weekends & Bank Holidays |
| Blaby | Enderby Leisure Centre | 6:30pm – 9pm | 9am – 7pm |
| Lutterworth | Feilding Palmer Hospital | No change (In-hours care via GP practice, no evening service) | 9am – 7pm |
| Market Harborough | St Luke’s Hospital | 6:30pm – 9pm | 9am – 7pm |
| Melton Mowbray | Melton Hospital | 6:30pm – 9pm | 9am – 7pm |
| Oadby | Oadby Walk-in Centre | 8am – 9pm | 8am – 8pm |
| Oakham | Rutland Memorial Hospital | 6:30pm – 9pm | 9am – 7pm |
The East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG has decided that Oakham’s Rutland Memorial Hospital will be open on weekdays from 6.30pm to 9pm and weekends and bank holidays from 9am to 7pm for patients using the 911 service, GP referrals or requiring walk-in urgent treatment.
Urgent care services, which offer appointments with a GP or Nurse, can be accessed by patients if they need medical attention for conditions which are not life-threatening.
Tim Sacks, Chief Operating Officer, at ELR Clinical Commissioning Group said: “Local people have told us that having services close to home is important to them.
“They’ve also told us that services need to be simpler so its clearer where they need to go when they have an urgent care need.
“We’ve listened and are changing the opening hours of some of our urgent care centres so that they are open when local GP practices close, making it simpler for people to know which service to go to when.
“We believe the changes will help to improve access to urgent care services for all of our patients but should also ease the pressure on our accident and emergency departments.”
The new services across East Leicestershire and Rutland will be provided by DHU Health Care and the East Leicestershire and Rutland GP Federation following a procurement process.
The Managing Director of DHU Urgent Care Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, Simon Harris said: “We are proud to be the delivery partners to operate and manage the out of hours services across East Leicestershire and Rutland.
“We’re looking forward to offering patients the benefits of our experience running urgent care services which are joined up with NHS111 to give people access to a range of out of hours care that meets their needs.”
ELR CCG is formed of GPs from 31 practices in the south and east of Leicestershire and Rutland serving around 327,000 patients.
It is led by a Governing Body comprising elected GP members, a secondary care clinician and lead nurse, independent lay members, representatives of Healthwatch and senior managers.
It is supported by a team of staff overseeing the daily business of the CCG.
All Our Yesterdays
I’ve lived in Wing for nearly 20 years but I’ve been coming to events in the village since my sister-in-law Sheila Casey started running the village shop some 50 years ago. I’ve noticed that over the years the community spirit has eroded. This is probably due to the increase in TV choice in the home, the loss of one of the pubs and the ageing population so that there is less reason to leave our firesides and gather together as a community.
But not all is not yet lost. Yesterday we had a fund-raising lunch to sponsor one of our younger residents, Siobhan, who has gained a place in the London Marathon organised by the WI and over 50 people attended ( and raised over £400 ).
In 2 weeks, on 13th April, Gloria, one of the senior residents, is organising a 3-mile run/walk/crawl/bike/mobility scooter event – with refreshments – for the whole community to also support Siobhan.
This is raising the community spirit! At the lunch Joanne remarked that it was great to see the village responding to an event that was for the community and not simply to raise funds for the care and feeding of our wonderful Village Hall which, although it needs money to keep it in good condition, is NOT the centre of the community; it is the residents that are.
Is there anyone in the village who could organise an event for a cause of their own that could bring back the community spirit? Could we all get together for an evening of excerpts from the wonderful pantos we used to have? A sports day (suitable for the current demographic) for example. Any ideas are welcome.
Use Nextdoor.co.uk to have a discussion if you live in the village.
John Oakley
Wing Community 
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