North East Essex Primary Care Trust’s vision and 5 year health strategy
Vision: To improve the health and well-being of the population of North East Essex and to make sure that the services bought are:
- High quality and effective
- As close to home as possible
- Available when needed
- Good value for money
Commitments to you:
- Increase life expectancy, in particular for those people who die prematurely in our population and improve your health and well-being.
- Tackle certain diseases to reduce levels of illness
- Improve the health and well-being of children and young people
- Provide better access, choice and care closer to home
- Improve Mental Health Services
- Improve premises and make them suitable for modern healthcare
- Improve patient safety and make our healthcare as safe as possible
- Excel in the way that we purchase care on your behalf
- Committed to the principle of patient and public involvement and to making real improvements to the patient experience
If you would like a copy of the full strategy or have any feedback or questions, please contact the Communications Department at North East Essex Primary Care Trust.
Tel: 01206 286833
Email: communications@neessexpct.nhs.uk
France declares loss of rabies free status: implications for British travellers
Further to a rabies incident in France in February 2008, involving an illegally imported dog and transmission to 2 indigenous dogs, the French Ministry of Agriculture has declared that France has lost its rabies-free status. French officials have confirmed that there is a low but increased risk of rabies in 3 previously identified areas of France:
- Gers (Auch city and surroundings)
- Seine-et-Marne (environs of Grandpuits)
- Calvados (Lisieux city and Thury Harcourt village and their surroundings)
Elsewhere the risk of rabies is considered to be extremely small, but cannot be completely ruled out.
Advice has been published by the Health Protection Agency (http://www.hpa.org.uk/) and NaTHNaC (http://www.nathnac.org/) for British travellers to France, including information on the risk of rabies in France and change of rabies-free status. All British travellers are reminded of the need to avoid contact with animals, particularly in the risk areas where possible and advised to seek prompt medical assessment if exposed (through animal bites, scratches and licks around the eyes, mouth or an open wound) in the local Rabies Clinic in France (addresses of clinics available at http://cmip.pasteur.fr/cmed/voy/Car2007.pdf
) or if not possible from their GP on return to UK.
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