The Institute is lucky to have recently recruited Professor Sir George Castledine and Michelle Grainger as Managers for the Centre, who would like to introduce themselves…….

‘Hello from George and Michelle. We are very excited about taking over the management of Onneley House and would like to tell you about some of the things we are planning to do. Our overall model on which our ideas are based is one that combines Health and Social and Care. We believe that both health and social care belong on the same continuum and we feel that nurses in particular should be more in tune with developing the relationship and linking the two together. Our slogan therefore is, “The Centre at Onneley House where Health and Social care meet”

We are continuing with many of the excellent events and activities, which have become a feature of the Onneley service, but in addition, we hope to increase the variety of some of these and bring in new ideas. For example we are setting up a drop in Nursing Clinic and have already had our first patients! To enable this to flourish we need medical equipment and support from nurses who would like to join us in this new innovative idea.

The small room, which is used for the clinic is also available for counselling and a variety of services such as chiropody, massage and hairdressing. Social activities will continue to increase especially if we can get the Sunday lunch club started and more evening activities. We would like to encourage older men to attend the Centre and are devoting Friday afternoons to this.

The centre has an excellent team who we very much appreciate and Binwant and Amy are working on improvements in our café services. Volunteers are also needed to add to our already existing band of helpers, so if you know of anyone who would like to help out, let us know.

Well we hope this has given you a flavour of some of the things we are doing and propose to do. If you would like to help us anytime or have any suggestions for future activities please get in contact’. George and Michelle.