KERRIDGE AND RAINOW Award for medical centre team
●● A BOWLING competition will take place with players from a number of different clubs.
The competition at Bollington Bowling Club will be held to present the first annual Unsworth Shield, with pairs of bowlers registered with either Macclesfield and District or Alderley Edge and District Bowling Associations.
It will be held from 10am to 4pm on Sunday, August 28 and there is £400 prize money.
The entry fee costs £5. Entries should go to John Lloyd on 01625 578094 or email lloyd.john1@gmail. com. ●● GEORGE Borowski and Friends will perform at the Bridgend Centre.
Tickets for the gig cost £8.50 and are available from the centre which is on Palmerstone Street.
There will be a bar and seating.
The gig is on Saturday, August 13 at 7.30pm. ●● THE TOWN council office will have reduced opening during August.
It will be shut from Monday, August 1 to Friday, August 5, on Thursday 11 and Friday 12, Thursday 18 and Friday 19, Thursday 25 and Friday 26 and Monday 29.
Phone messages and emails will be monitored periodically while the office is closed.
The hours on open days are 9.30am to 12.30pm. ●● FLASH Lane is due to reopen tomorrow (Thursday) after a closure.
It was closed from the junction with Bollington Road for 200 metres from Monday to enable BT to carry out work.
The alternative route is via Bollington Road, Ball Lane Roundabout, Silk Road, Flash Lane Roundabout and Flash Lane.
The work is expected to finish today but the closure notice lasts until Friday.
Pedestrian access and for emergency services is being maintained at all BOLLINGTON Medical Centre has won plaudits for its work in clinical research.
It was presented with a plaque by the body which supports research in the NHS - the National Institute of Health Research Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN) - at a ceremony at the surgery. This was the first time the Greater Manchester arm of the network has named a GP practice as a Primary Care Research Centre of Excellence.
Debbie Vinsun, chief operating officer of Greater Manchester CRN, said: “Bollington Medical Centre is the first GP practice to be recognised in this way.
“Bollington was chosen because it’s extremely research active, responsive to all our requests, recruits the patients it says it’s going to and manages to fit it all in as well as running a busy surgery.”
Led by GP Dr Pete Wilson, practice nurse Sister Ann Burgess and practice manager Laura Beresford, Bollington Medical Centre has been supporting patients to take part in research projects for some time.
Its research team won ‘Best Community Research Contribution’ and Sister Burgess was named ‘Research Nurse of the Year’ at the Greater Manchester Clinical Research Awards in November 2015.
The team was recognised for its work on an innovative screening programme and trial of a new drug for chronic constipation.
Dr Wilson said: “We’re delighted to be recognised and it’s testament to the hard work of the whole team.
“Patients that we think are suitable for trials are contacted in lots of different ways. Sometimes they’re sent a letter, which is followed up with a phone call from a clinician they know and we believe that personal approach is really important.”