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The Plymouth Laryngectomy Club ( PLC ) is an Affiliated Member of: The National Association of Laryngectomy Clubs (NALC )In Association with Macmillan Cancer SupportRegistered Charity Number: 273635

A Member of The Plymouth Third Sector Consortium (PTSC )

Patrons & Medical Advisors : Mr. W.M. BRIDGER, FRCS -Consultant ENT Surgeon, Mr. Tass MALIK, BSc FRCS (Gen), FRCS (ORL H&N) - Consultant Otolaryngologist, Head & Neck / Thyroid Surgeon, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth.

The Plymouth Laryngectomy Club ( PLC ) A Charitable Support Group for Plymouth Cancer Laryngectomees

The Voice of PLCOctober 2010Address: 80, Warleigh Avenue, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2DHTel: (01752 ) 563800 Mobile: 07749819828 ( text only ) Email: [email protected] Website: http://plymouthlc.webs.com

OUR VERY FIRST ISSUEWritten by Geoffrey N. READ

ELCOME to our very first issue of the PLC monthlynewsletter. The Voice of PLC. Now that the Club

has been formally set-up with a properly-electedCommittee, a formally-adopted Constitution and theacceptance of our Affiliation to the National Association of Laryngectomy Clubs, we thought it time to relax theformalities a little, and begin to have fun! This brand newmonthly newsletter will complement our website and willcarry any decisions and / or announcements made at ourmonthly Club Meetings. We intend to use this instead of issuing formal Minutes of Meetings.

FOREWORD BY THE CHAIRWritten by Edward (Ted) BURNETT

ELCOME to the Plymouth Laryngectomy Club! I should like to welcome all our readers, whether

they re Club Members, Friends or Supporters. Our Clubwas formed at theinstigation of EmerSCANLON (our former Speech & LanguageTherapist ) and MaggieJARVIS (our Clinical Specialist Nurse at ENT ). Itwas those two who initially

brought us all together! The PLC was founded at its firstmeeting on Tuesday, 29 th June 2010 and we adopted ourcurrent Constitution on Monday, 6 th September 2010.

OMMITTEE . I was elected Club Chair at our firstmeeting and I should like to thank Jean READ for

volunteering to be our Club Treasurer and Geoff READ asour Secretary.

RIENDS. Im delighted to welcome some Friends toour Club. Friends are guests who are not

Laryngectomees but who support the Club and its aims insome way. Friends are every bit Club Members exceptthat they have no right to vote at our meetings. We areparticularly thankful to Mr. W.M. BRIDGER and Mr. T.

MALIK for becoming Friends of our Club and also forallowing us to use their names ( see the foot of this page ).Any Club Member can nominate someone to become aFriend of our Club... indeed we hope they do so!

EMBERS. The Club is open to anyone who hasundergone a Laryngectomy and their partners. All

known Laryngectomees in the wider-Plymouth area havenow been contacted and invited to join our merry band.Theres an a pplication form on our website.Alternatively, please contact Geoff whose details are atthe top of this Newsletter.

EETINGS. Club Members meet on the firstMonday of each calendar month, usually at 11 a.m.

The venue will usually alternate between the MustardTree at Derriford Hospital one month, and an outsidelocation the next. Please keep watching this newsletterand our website for current details.

EWSLETTER. Geoff READ is the Editor of thisNewsletter and his contact details are shown at the

top of this page. Geoff will be relying on you all to providehim with articles, reports and newsworthy items to makethis Newsletter interesting. So... do please start sendinghim your contributions! Contributions can be submittedat any time and we intend to publish each Newsletter assoon as possible after each monthly meeting.

ALENDAR OF EVENTS. A copy of the ClubsCalendar of Events for the next 12 months or so is

available on our website and Geoff ( our Secretary ) intendsto give a forecast in each edition of our Newsletter.

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CONGRATULATIONS!Written by Geoffrey (Geoff) N. READ

ONGRATULATIONS! Very best wishes to Ted & LizBURNETT on the occasion of their Anniversary on

Thursday, 21 st October 2010. Ted is the current Chair of PLC but its Liz who does all the work behind the scenes!Oh yes it is!

WELCOME!Written by Geoffrey (Geoff) N. READ

PEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPIST. We welcomeJulia POCKET whos joined us from Cornwall to replace

Emer SCANLON who s moved to Exeter. We re hopingJulia will put in an appearance at our November Meeting togive everyone an opportunity to meet her. Welcome toPlymouth Julia!

THE TREASURERS REPORT Written by Jean M. READ

ONTHLY REPORT. I aim to keep all Membersupdated on the financial aspects of our Club but I

dont think it would be prudent to include specific figuresin this newsletter nor on our website. I will of coursepresent all the necessary figures at our monthly ClubMeetings and Club Members are at liberty to contact meat any time should they have a query, or should they wishto inspect the books.

THE SECRETARYS REPORTWritten by Geoffrey (Geoff) N. READ

LYER. Were in the process of producing a Flyer /Poster with our Clubs Contact details . It will be

strategically posted onto Notice Boards and copies will bepassed to Maggie and Julia so they can point out the Cluband its benefits to prospective new Members. When it sfinalised a copy will also be posted on our website.

EMBERS & FRIENDS. Our current MembershipStatus is shown in the table below. As you see, we

have 15 not on email which means we re incurringpostage charges. The sooner individuals obtain access tothe internet the sooner our Club can save a few pennies!

POSTAL EMAIL TOTALConfirmed Members: 4 11 15Confirmed Friends: 9 6 15TOTALS: 13 17 30

EMBERSHIP LIST. Weve separated the details of all individuals who ve not acknowledged our

invitation to join the Club, from the main Membership List.We ll not be sending them any further correspondence due

to the cost of postage. The invitation to join us however,stands!

ATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LARYNGECTOMEECLUBS (NALC ). NALC sent a letter to us recently to

say that a General Committee Meeting would be held onMonday, 11 th October 2010. I replied saying that our Clubhad only just been set up and that this is the firstnotification we ve had. I therefore sent our apologies fornon-attendance and said we hoped to send delegates inthe future.

CTOBER 2010 CLUB MEETING.Our Fourth

Meeting was held as a Luncheon at the Peter TavyInn on the Okehampton road, just outside Tavistock.http://www.petertavyinn.com/ Although only sixmembers attended, it was a thoroughly enjoyable time ina beautiful Devon setting! Liz won the Raffle Prize of a tinof Roses Chocolates.

LYMOUTH THIRD SECTOR CONSORTIUM . OurClubs Membership of this Consortium was approved

on Monday, 6 th September 2010 and our Letterhead andWebsite have since been updated by Kanda ( our webmaster ). For further information please visit:http://www.plymouthtsc.org.uk/

RESS RELEASE. I issued a Press Release to theDevon & Cornwall media in September to advertise

the fact that our Club is now up and running and asked forall Laryngectomees in the area to contact us!

TRAP-LINE. Our Members agreed that our Clubsstrap-line should be:

PLC A Charitable Support Group for Plymouth Cancer Laryngectomees.

This will be used on our Letterhead, Website and anythingelse we publish. This strap-line can be changed at any timeso do please send any suggestions to me.

A STRAP-LINE? A good strap line makes you think,promises something, provides a guarantee of performanceor confirms your identity. The strap line is the pithystatement that reinforces your position and states a claimfor your differentiation. At different stages of a businesslife and under different leadership your strap line revealsthe inner focus of the organisation or product by focusingeither on the emotional, ideas, and concepts or therational, performance claims and statements of fact. Thechoice of strap line is not a matter of right or wrong, it is aquestion of positioning. However, it is a matter of good andbad. Whichever option you choose, above all avoid the

wishy-washy, undifferentiated platitude that adds nothingto the readers experience.

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EXTING IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS. A textingservice for people with speech or hearing difficulties

to use in emergency situations is currently on an extendedtrial. To be able to make use of the service you must firstregister your mobile phone by either going on-line to www.emergencysms.org.uk or by texting the wordregister to 999 then following the instructions youreceive. It's quite painless... I just registered! If anemergency occurs

once you haveregistered, you canthen send amessage to 999stating what theproblem is and youwill receive a replywithin twominutes.

NEWS & GOSSIPWritten by Geoffrey N. read

27-SPACE DERRIFORD MULTI-STOREY CARPARK WORK SET TO START THIS YEAR. This

article was published in The Herald on Friday, 24 th September 2010:

WORK is expected to start this year on a 627-space multi-storey car park for Derriford Hospital.The car park is the first phase of development of a newshopping street and 'care square' in the northern part of

the city.Plymouth City Council Planning Committee yesterday agreed changes tothe design they approved last year.The seven-storey building will now include offices instead of a children'snursery, as originally approved.Cathy FRANCIS, from agents King Sturge, told councillors on thecommittee the developers had already provided a new bus lane as partof the scheme.She was speaking on behalf of developers Plymouth Hospitals Trust andWharfside Regeneration ( Devon ) Ltd.Ms. FRANCIS said the car park and a new entrance to the west of thehospital would allow visitors to find parking much more easily."Funding is in place and they are looking to start work in the next fewmonths," she said.The existing car parks would eventually be redeveloped. Ms. FRANCIS

said the hospital trust was looking for another site for a nursery.The master plan for the North West Quadrant site next to DerrifordHospital includes 356 dwellings, along with a supermarket, shops,restaurants, cafes, bars and a hotel.The 150million development, which has been described as a 'new heart'for Derriford, would also include offices, takeaways and public openspace, and a second multi-storey car park.The development would also include sizeable residential institutions suchas care homes and other healthcare facilities.Developers have said up to 1,500 jobs will be created on the 120,000sqm North West Quadrant site when the scheme is completed.The original intention was to complete by 2016, with the car park built bythe end of this year. That schedule has now slipped.In time, the developers say, they intend to add another four or fivestoreys over the roof of the car park on the western and eastern sides.

The extensions could be used as a nursing or care home, flats or offices.

OSPITAL BOSSES MAKE PLEDGE ON PATIENTCARE. This article was published on Saturday,

25th September 2010:

(Photo: CUTBACKS: TheHerald's front page onWednesday, 21 st September 2010.)

By Diana Prince Health ReporterHOSPITAL bosses have pledgedthat safety and high qualitypatient care will remain their"prime purpose" amid"immense" financial challenges.Achieving multimillion-pound savings while maintainingand improving services will require huge effort from everymember of staff, they said.Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust this week revealed it needsto hike this year's savings target from 27.5million to upto 40million: more than 10% of its budget.

Plans include asking staff to resign, putting seniormanagers at risk of redundancy, limiting agency staff andrestricting external recruitment.Speaking at the hospital's annual general yesterday, PlymouthHospitals chief executive Paul ROBERTS said: "Our commitment toquality and to safety remains at the heart of what we do for patients."Most of the headlines and debate is about money but as a board wewon't forget that our prime purpose is to provide safe and high qualitycare for our patients."We have to understand there's both a national and local context of major financial challenge, however, and we will no doubt hear muchmore about that in the next year or so."What we need to get through is the real commitment andinvolvement of our staff. So we can continue with improvements insafety and quality within the money available."Mr. ROBERTS said the Financial Internal Turnaround programme is a"service by service" piece of work, taking a "hard look" at overheads,back office and administrative functions."There's a lot of work to do and we've got to get a lot of detail intothat plan," he said."It's a major change in the way we are going about this because of thescale of the problem and because we are behind. That's why we'vechosen to change gear."Reflecting on the past year, he said achievements reflect the efforts of staff.Highlights included the hospital lowering mortality rates to well belowexpected levels, bringing down rates of C difficile to one of the lowest

in the country and improving results of the annual patient survey particularly around satisfaction and perceptions of cleanliness.Professor John BULL, Plymouth Hospitals chairman, warned the publicsector and Derriford will be under "enormous economic pressures" forseveral years to come.He said: "I hope we see what we have always seen in the NHS: anabsolute commitment to safety and quality of patient care."The scale of the challenge is something that's going to be repeated forthe next three, four, five years in the public sector."It's a serious position and is going to require a huge amount of effortfrom everyone throughout the trust."It's just so vital because the pressures of the next two or three yearsmean it's not going to get any easier. We will monitor it withenormous care."

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Joe TEAPE, director of finance, added the hospital faces an "extremelychallenging financial picture" but still expects to make a 1 millionsurplus.The latest figures show the trust has slipped almost 7 million behindon its savings target.The savings plan aims to cover rising costs, including agreed NHS payrises and more expensive medical supplies, as well as achieving thesurplus.It comes amid massive structural change in the NHS due toGovernment policy and plans to make efficiency savings across thehealth service.

T'S A VERY SIMPLE OPERATION. A man was wheeling himself frantically down the hall of the hospital in his wheelchair, just before his

operation.A nurse stopped him and asked, "What's the matter?"He said, "I heard the nurse say, 'It's a very simple operation, don't worry,I'm sure it will be all right.'""She was just trying to comfort you, what's so frightening about that?""She wasn't talking to me. She was talking to the doctor!"

S IT ALL TAKING ITS TOLL ON CATHERINE ZETAJONES? The strain shows on Michael DOUGLAS' ever-

supportive wife. By Simon Cable . This article was published in The Daily Mail on Wednesday, 22nd September 2010:

She is supporting her husband through a gruelling fightagainst throat cancer, while keeping life as normal aspossible for their two young children, one of whom hasspecial educational needs.So it would be no surprise if the strain of the last fewmonths was beginning to take its toll on Catherine ZetaJONES.Rushing into her New York apartment yesterday, after running yet anothererrand, her mouth was set in a tight grimace, her figure unmistakablyslender.But while Catherine is obviously undergoing a difficult time, she is doing her

best to keep herself together for her

family.Last night she put on a brave face tosupport her husband as he walkeddown the red carpet the new Yorkopening of the sequel to Wall Street,one of his biggest films.The Oscar-winning actor and producer,who will turn 66 this week on the sameday his wife turns 41, recently revealedhow the treatment has left him withsores in his mouth which make itextremely difficult to eat and swallow.Although Douglas braved Mondaynights premiere of Wall Street: Moneynever Sleeps, in which he reprises his

role of hard-nosed financial traderGordon Gekko after 23 years, he has had to axe plans to travel to the UKfor the films British premiere next week.Earlier this month, Douglas appeared on David Lettermans U.S. chatshow,where he revealed that the cancer had spread beyond its original tumourand was now worse than first feared.He admitted that his illness was now stage four which can often provefatal claiming that a lifetime of drinking and smoking had been the mostlikely cause..However, he said he still had an 80% chance of beating the disease.DOUGLAS also revealed he and his wife had asked their children, son Dylan,ten, and daughter Carys, seven, to see him undergoing radiotherapy,saying: They actually thought it was cool, like a video g ame or Star Wars.'They were very impressed when the doctors let them press the buttons.

Read more:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1314143/Strain-shows-Michael-Douglas-wife-Catherine-Zeta-Jones.html

HE FUTURE OF THE NHS. The Government hasset out its proposals for the future of the National

Health Service which means radical changes in how yourNHS will be run. Theres been many related paperspublished but were attaching the following PDFdocuments to this Newsletter for your information:

A leaflet for patients and the public which simplifies theWhite paper;

An easy read version of the White Paper; and

The summary document relating to the proposed changesto Local Involvement Networks ( LINks) which will evolveinto Healthwatch.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTWritten by Geoffrey N. READ

ur grateful thanks to The Devonport RegenerationCommunity ( DRC ) Partnership for their assistance in

reproducing copies of this Newsletter.

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