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February 22, 2023February 22, 2023

East Lammermuir Community Council seeks Community Councillor for Innerwick

Want to do more for your local community of Innerwick?

East Lammermuir Community Council, covers Innerwick, Oldhamstocks, Spott, Stenton, and surrounding areas. We are seeking a person to take on the role of Community Councillor for Innerwick.

This is open to anyone living or working in the East Lammermuir area with an interest in and connection to the Innerwick area. The Community Council is able to fill this vacancy by co-opting a suitable person to serve from now until the next community council elections in September 2026. There are 2 community councillors for each village, and at present we have one vacancy for Innerwick ward. This covers the village of Innerwick, plus Thurston, Thorntonloch, Branxfield, Blackcastle and Crowhill.

Proposed electricity infrastructure works mean that there will be very significant developments in this area over the next decade, bringing both challenges and opportunity for the local community.

The role is to work as part of East Lammermuir Community Council to improve quality of life for people who live and work in East Lammermuir. In part through representing the local community, seeking to liaise with other local bodies, developers, and East Lothian Council and the East Lothian Health & Social Care Partnership and NHS Lothian, and Police Scotland. Also through administering community benefits funds.

This includes nine Community Council meetings a year which usually take place on Tuesday evenings, held in the four village halls in turn. There may be other roles which your skill set fits you to fulfil.

The meeting calendar and lots of other relevant information is published on our website elcc.scot

If you would like to know more about what’s involved email chair@elcc.scot to arrange a chat in the first instance. An informal interview will be arranged for all interested candidates, to take place March 2023.

February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

Belhaven Community Update – 10 February 2023

Belhaven Community Hospital Update

Ward 1: Blossom House

In our previous update to you, we were delighted to confirm that the residents of Blossom House were set to be making a return to Dunbar on Wednesday 18 January.

The move from East Lothian Community Hospital back to Belhaven was an extremely joyful one, which each resident being welcomed back to Blossom House with open arms and a personal fanfare. You can watch a short video of their arrival here YouTube: Blossom House residents return.

Each of the residents have very quickly settled into their refurbished surroundings, and are thrilled to be back home, and are especially enjoying the new bath! Take a video tour here (YouTube: Blossom House Refurbishments)

Ward 3: GP Led Medical Unit

As detailed previously, the remedial works within Ward 3 are significantly less extensive than in Ward 1’s building. The contractors started work in Ward 3 at the beginning of January, and have already replaced the basins and taps in each of the patient rooms and toilets.

The new water tank and booster are being fitted, and the bathrooms have had their tiles replaced with wet-walls panels – same as Ward 1. There is still some joinery work to be completed, and following this, the entire building will undergo the necessary disinfection treatments and rounds of water compliance testing. The team are (quietly) confident, that we could be looking at patients returning to Ward 3 before the end of March, providing we have sufficient staffing levels to support this move.

Ward 2: Administrative Hub

While the water testing is completed in Ward 3, our attention will then focus on the final stages of this project, Ward 2 and the external water access points. As the primary use of this facility is now for administration, the remedial works required in this building are focused on removing elements of the plumbing framework no longer required, as well as completing a full disinfection and water compliance testing.

Although timescales are currently speculative, it is our aim to have all remedial works completed at Belhaven prior to Easter.

As always, we thank everyone involved with Belhaven for their patience and understanding as we complete these necessary maintenance works and upgrades. We will continue to keep you updated of the site’s progress.

Jennifer

Jennifer Jarvis

Senior Communications Advisor | East Lothian Health & Social Care Partnership

John Muir House, Brewery Park, Haddington, EH41 3HA

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

Belhaven Hospital Community Update – 13/01/2023

We’re delighted to have a confirmed schedule of works for Ward 3, which commenced at the start of January. The remedial actions required in this ward are significantly less extensive that those in Ward 1’s building. An exact timescale for completion has not been confirmed at this stage, however we will continue to provide further updates as these works progress.

Outdoor access areas

The outdoor tap remains disconnected and the toilet facility is still closed at this moment. Please be rest assured, this area has not been forgotten about, and will be looked at and addressed in due course.

Thank you

Once again, we would like to offer our sincere thanks to patients, relatives, and our staff for their patience, understanding and considerable efforts while these works have taken place.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming our residents back, and we thoroughly hope that everyone is pleased with the fantastic work that has been done to significantly invest and upgrade Belhaven’s Blossom House.

E: elhscp@eastlothian.gov.uk
W: eastlothian.gov.uk/elhscp

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