In this issue:
Rules and guidance to keep us safe from COVID-19 are changing regularly. We now have Test and Trace. The NHS Test and Trace app will soon be available.
To keep up with these developments, we have changed the Healthwatch Tameside COVID-19 survey questions slightly.
What are your views?
Do you understand what is happening? What are your concerns? Are you able to get care for non-COVID medical issues? What is working well?
You can complete the survey online at www.healthwatchtameside.co.uk/covid-19-survey or you can give us a call on 0161 667 2526. We can either post out a paper copy with a FREEPOST envelope, or give you a call back and complete the survey over the phone with you.
If you have already filled it in, but now have more to tell us about recent events, you can fill it in again.
We would love to hear from you. Thank you.
Digital Wellbeing Tameside and Glossop
Local charity PCrefurb are looking for donations of mobile phones, tablets and laptops, that you no longer use, to help people in our communities who are at a disadvantage when it comes to access to technology.
For more information see https://pcrefurb.org.uk/training/digitalwellbeing-devices/
Carers UK
Carers UK have launched a survey for unpaid carers. This follows on from one in April, and it is hoped the information collected will add to the overall picture.
The deadline for completing the survey is 27 September, and the link is www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CNTJ8GM
Prehab4Cancer
Prehab4Cancer and Recovery Programme is a free exercise, nutrition and wellbeing scheme in Greater Manchester. It is designed to help people with a recent diagnosis of cancer prepare for, and cope better with their treatment.
Details are available on the website https://prehab4cancer.co.uk/
What is a support bubble?
There has been some confusion about support bubbles.
A support bubble is a close support network between a household with only one adult in the home (known as a single-adult household) and one other household of any size.
More details can be found at www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-support-bubble-with-another-household
COVID-19 guidance - what can Tameside residents do?
Tameside has stricter restrictions about what residents can and can't do than some other places in England. This can change from week to week. To summarise, at the time this ebulletin is released:
There are exemptions to these rules, which can be found at www.gov.uk/guidance/north-west-of-england-local-restrictions-what-you-can-and-cannot-do
Here are some other trusted websites you can look at, to get information. If you can't find what you are looking for, give us a call on 0161 667 2526.
Tameside Council - www.tameside.gov.uk/itworks
COVID-19 testing - www.nhs.uk/coronavirus or call 119
Self-isolating - www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance
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