9th March 2023 • The HERALD • Page 47 v THE HERALD - Proud to be part of your communityv Karen 07590 516009 Wednesday 5.30pm & 7.30pm Thursdays 7.30am & 9am St John’s Church Hall, Hythe The Waterside Physiotherapy & Osteopathy Clinic www.thewatersideclinic.co.uk Jon Eyres and Associates • NECK AND BACK PAIN • PREGNANCY RELATED PAIN • ACUPUNCTURE • ARTHRITIC PAIN • ALL SPORTS INJURIES • SHOULDER/ARM PAIN Treatment by Chartered Physiotherapists and Registered Osteopaths Registered with all major health insurers and HCPC Tel: 023 8020 7764 First Floor, South Street Centre, Hythe, Southampton SO45 6EB GET BACK TO FEELING YOUR BEST WITH HYTHE & TOTTON CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC 8 Drummond Court, Prospect Place, Hythe (Opposite Hythe Ferry) 023 8020 7826 81a Rumbridge Street, Totton 023 8086 3612 Health, Beauty &Wellbeing We offer: • Physiotherapy • Women’s Health • Lymphatic Drainage • Return To Walking From Falls • Elderly Physiotherapy • Massage Therapy • Sports Massage • Pregnancy Therapy • Post Pregnancy Therapy • Any Injury Recovery • Kinesiology Taping HCPC registered and a member of the Chartered society of Physiotherapists. 45mins - 1 hour Physio in clinic : £50 1 hour Massage in clinic : £55 90mins Massage in clinic £80 Remote services available at an additional charge of £15 E: gosia.rokicka@outlook.com T: 07742 777699 • F: GO C Physio GO C Physio offering in clinic or remote Physiotherapy in the Waterside & New Forest area NHS CALL FOR MORE BLOOD DONORS improve up to three lives. Register now and book an appointment at: blood.co.uk on the GiveBloodNHS app or call: 0300 123 23 23. e Blood Donor Centre in Southampton can be found at Coxford Road. NHS Blood and Transplant is urging anyone considering becoming a blood donor to make 2023 the year they save lives. e rst ever amber alert on blood stocks shortages during October sparked a huge response from the public wanting to help and led to 654 people in Southampton registering over the four weeks. Only one in three has donated so far. However, at that time there were limited appointments available for rst-time donors because of sta ng issues and the need to prioritise existing donors. People who registered during 2022 may have found it more di cult than in recent years to make their rst appointment as the NHS experienced a challenging year with low blood stocks. Existing donors are prioritised at these times as their blood type is known and they are more likely to complete a successful donation, which means appointments for rst time donors are reduced. Blood stocks have since stabilised and there are now more slots available for new donors. NHS Blood and Transplant is urging new registrants who have not yet donated to take the next step and book an appointment. ere is an urgent need for more donors of Black heritage as they are more likely to have the blood type needed to treat sickle cell patients – the country’s fastest growing genetic blood disorder. e demand for ethnically matched blood for these patients is on the rise and has already doubled in recent years. Permanent donor centres in towns and cities generally have greater availability and longer opening hours than mobile sessions that are held in community venues such as church halls. David Rose, Director of Donor Experience at NHS Blood and Transplant, said: “We always need new people to join our amazing community of lifesaving blood donors and help meet the needs of patients right now and in the future. If you are one of the people in Southampton who registered last year but are yet to attend an appointment, or you’re thinking about signing up to donate, please make 2023 the year you save lives. More slots are now available for first time donors but if you can’t find an immediate appointment, don’t worry. Please book for further in the future as we need lifesavers every day. It doesn’t matter if it’s months or weeks ahead – every donation counts. Giving blood is quick and easy, and you will feel amazing afterwards.” e call comes as NHS Blood and Transplant launches the second phase of its rst ever mass home blood type testing campaign to help identify 5,000 individuals with the critical O negative blood. O negative blood is the universal blood type that can be given to any patient in an emergency or where their blood type isn’t known. e campaign is part of a trial by the NHS to use home test kits on a large-scale to identify people with a certain blood type and book them on to priority appointments, and is one way in which new donors can fast-track to book their rst appointment if they have this blood type. is is part of an ongoing focus by the NHS to collect enough of the right blood types, instead of collecting as much blood as possible. 36,000 home testing kits will be sent to people who have recently registered but have not yet made an appointment. ose found to have O negative blood will be o ered priority appointments. If needed, the search will widen out and kits will be posted to up to 100,000 people registered with Give Blood over the coming months, until enough people with O negative blood are identi ed and booked on to donate: People who register but don’t book an appointment are contacted by phone and email with opportunities to donate in their area to encourage them to make their rst donation. From the 29,000 kits sent out last autumn, 715 people who responded were O negative and two in ve has either gone on to complete a donation or has an upcoming appointment to donate. Last summer NHS Blood and Transplant announced a ve year strategy to recruit one million new donors of all blood types to ensure better matched blood for patients in the future and reduce health inequalities. Blood is needed to help the NHS treat patients with cancer, blood disorders and those suffering medical trauma or undergoing surgery, and O negative blood is mostly used for emergency care. Each donation can save or
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