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LETTER FROM WESTMINSTER

New dental provision welcomed

A long campaign finally paid off last month when I opened North Swindon's new mobile NHS dentistry unit with the Health Minister Lord Hunt,
writes North Swindon MP Michael Wills.
The area has been without an faced with the choice of travelling People have rightly come to ex- tained increase in funding. This
NHS dentist for four years, and into Swindon or paying to go pri- pect that the National Health Serv- will pay for more consultants,
those who needed treatment were vately - not an attractive choice, ice will be there to care for them nurses, GPs, medical training
particularly for elderly people, or when they are ill, regardless of places, scanners and hospitals.
those with young children, who where they live or their ability to People want to know that the
CHIROPODIST often need the most dental care. pay. NHS is there for them - and for
September also saw the launch
But over the past twenty years it
everyone else. In Swindon we can
of a £100 million scheme for NHS has been starved of funds whilst already see that becoming a reality
Advanced Reflexologist dentistry. It will mean that pa- the demand for its services has through the new dentistry scheme
tients can phone NHS Direct to increased. This Government inher- that serves Highworth and Abbey
& Kinesiologist find a dentist, and the scheme has ited an NHS stretched to its limit, Meads and we can see the new
also earmarked up to £35 million with run-down hospitals, long hospital taking shape at Common-
CLINIC AT HIGH STREET
to modernise NHS dentists' sur- waiting lists and demoralised staff. head.
WOOTTON BASSETT geries and establish up to fifty Den- Years of neglect cannot be put Saving the NHS is taking time
tal Access Centres by next Spring. right overnight, but there has been and hard work. It is one of the
For an appointment with
The NHS is one of Britain's most a good start. Earlier this year the most worthwhile challenges this
Mrs Lesley Taylor enduringly popular institutions. NHS received its largest ever sus- Government faces.
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Call (01793) 849914 That was a joke that my friend cracked one Thursday evening in early September when I set out in a white
anytime transit van that barely had enough diesel to last the evening. Ian Howard writes.
I was on my way to the only don. It was started seven years
Filling Station that ran as normal ago by Swindon Christian Fellow-
during the petrol shortage. ship (now New City Church) and
Unlike the rest of us the home- is now supported by over a dozen
less community of Swindon was churches and other secular groups.
unable to panic buy bread and We rely on the support of the
other daily requirements from su- public to survive and are always
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Christopher Radford Filling Station was the only way of aside we always need cans of food,
MBcHA, MSSch ensuring that they ate at all. toiletries and other consumables
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and fuel shortages were frustra- Maybe you have a tree laden with
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All other aspects of foot care tankers started rolling, a life of well as other fruit of reasonable
catered for. t shortage and insecurity is the norm quality.
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Caught up in the panic that gripped
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0 ^,r"' "' I r Over 20 therapies available including massage, reflexology, the nation on 19 September, after the
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BACK PAIN acupuncture, Mctimony chiropractic, hypnotherapy, shiatsu, petrol protest was called off. Michael
Bowen technique, bio-dynamic, counselling, Reiki, Indian
head massage, music healing, allergy testing, kinesiology. Younger, with his son Conor, from
If you are suffering from: Toothill queued at Asda to ensure his
,S' Creative activities, workshops, accredited courses held in a
0 Backache, Leg pain ,t beautiful calm and healing environment. wife had fuel to get to work in Westbury
Take time out to pamper yourself at:
O Neck, The Marlborough Natural Health Centre
Shoulder, FREE Tel: 01672 51 50 51 47 Kingsbury Street, Marlborough, Wilts. Free back screenings
Arm Pain Chiro- This year during National
O Headache checks BackCare Week, 16 to 22 October,
&Migraine availabl local chiropractor Sandra Davies
,Natural 3eauty DC is offering free screenings at
0 Sciatica Shaw Chiropractic Clinic, Unit 5
Non-Surgical Facelift
0 Sports Injury Ramleaze House, Shaw Village
Smoothes away facial lines and Centre.
0 Whiplash wrinkles, rejuvenates skin tone Sandra says, "if you have ever
and texture.
You should consider wondered what a chiropractic
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Tel: (01793) 887801 lash perm, manicures, pedicures, ideal opportunity to ask ques-
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C Member of the British or 077309 86400 for an To find out about this free serv-
Chiropractic Association Wendy (01793) ice and what it involves, call
appointment & further prices
Sandra on 887801