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If you have any symptoms of CO poisoning: headaches, dizziness, breathlessness, Privacy at the Dispensary hatch
nausea, collapse, and loss of consciousness, don’t delay - get fresh air
immediately. Open doors and windows, turn off gas appliances and leave the We would be grateful that once patients have given their name to the dispenser
house. See your doctor immediately or go to hospital. If you think there is an that they stand back so the dispenser has room to take the name of the next
immediate danger, call the Gas Emergency Helpline on 0800 111 999. patient or call patients to collect their medication. It’s getting a little congested at
times and is leaving little room for privacy! Thank you for your co-operation
For more details about what I have been doing – both as your Member of
Parliament, and also as HM Solicitor General, you can sign up on my website to
my email newsletter. I send these out monthly, and you can unsubscribe at any Urgent nurse appointments
time. If you have an issue that needs resolving, please do get in touch – my team
and I can’t promise miracles, but we will do our best to help. We would like to remind patients that we do not have a walk in nursing service.
We accommodate patients where we can but it is not possible to see a nurse on
If you need to get in touch, you can contact me via email demand. It is likely their time will already be utilised seeing patients who have a
michael.tomlinson.mp@parliament.uk or call my office on booked appointment. There are minor injuries units in Blandford, Wimborne,
01202 624216. Swanage and Weymouth who may be able to help.

FIRST THURSDAY CLUB
Michael Tomlinson MP LOCAL MEMBER OF
holds regular surgeries PARLIAMENT (AUTUMN LEAVES)
in the constituency. For
details of forthcoming Go up the Khyber
surgeries or to make an  With the warm weather and the change of speaker,
Michael.tomlinson.mp@parliament.uk
appointment, please numbers were a bit down at our September
contact his office.  01202 624216 meeting. Laura Maunder stepped into the breach giving us a talk about her
 www.michaeltomlinson.org.uk experiences in 1999 working for the British High Commission in Islamabad in
Pakistan. I know it was 20 years ago but this was in the time when the Taliban
were in power when Osama Bin Laden was carrying out his terrorist campaign
from Afghanistan.
Laura gave us a brief outline of the country and its history since independence
Did you Know? and partition. She had previously worked as a Border force officer in this Country
before taking this post in Islamabad. Her Job was to process applications for Visas
for people to travel here. This involved examining and checking all
Would you like to have the parish magazine delivered to your door each month documentation and to interview the applicants. It was interesting to note that this
if you live within the parishes? was only applications for visas and only about 10 per cent of applicants were

We have a fantastic team of volunteer distributors who undertake the successful because of lack the correct documentation and fraudulent
applications. Perhaps it explains why it takes so long to process migrant
delivery of this magazine, and for just £10 a year (which is £2 less than you applications nowadays. It seems that nothing has changed much in the last 20
would pay at the retail price and no charge for delivery), you could be included years.
on one of these rounds.
She showed us pictures of life in the country. There were brightly painted buses
Contact the Editor, for more information: Alison Debenham on@culverdell.co.uk called ’jumblies’, pictures of villages and fields clinging to mountainsides. I get
or 01929 471780 puffed walking to the shop and would not last long there. Her account of a trip to

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