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Royal Mail AND The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following:
A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 (a Premium rate number). DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize. If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £315 for the phone call. If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 020 7239 6655.

Programme of healthy walks in Merton organised by Sutton & Merton Primary Care Trust. See information sheet for detailed information.

These excellent workshops which are run by Consultant Nurse Catherine Gamble on alternate Tuesdays at Springfield Hospital and Queen Mary’s, Roehampton from 6.30-7.30pm, providing expert advice and support to anyone who is concerned about a friend or relative. The workshops run on a rolling programme and can be joined at any time. Please contact Catherine direct on 8682 6318, Catherine.gamble@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk for more information, dates of specific sessions etc.

This database is now available and they can produce the M-Cards. Parents who have supplied their details should have heard from the Children's Information Service advising them of their data entry, their password to use the Bulletin board on www.somethingincommon.org and asking for the child's photo for the M-Card.If you have any queries please contact the Children's Information Service on 020 8545 3800.

Help is available for people suffering from mental or emotional health problems who want to get back to work from Sutton and Merton Psychological Therapies in Primary Care (PTiPC). If you live in Merton and are signed off from work because of mental health issues or stress, or if you qualify for mental health related benefits or statutory sick pay, you could receive advice, help and support on CV writing, finding and applying for jobs, and interview technique.

To find out more contact the employment specialists: Stephen Charlery 0771 213 6902 Stephen.Charlery@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk or Melissa Oshinowo 07525 668 720 Melissa.Oshinowo@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk or visit www.swlstg-tr.nhs.uk

The Relatives & Residents Association exists for older people needing, or living in, residential care and the families and friends left behind. Relatives often need a listening ear to cope with feelings of guilt about their perceived inability to carry on caring. They may want to know how to get help in understanding the complex rules and regulations about paying for care or to complain about the quality of care their loved ones are receiving. R&RA helps in all these ways, quietly sympathetic, authoritative in its advice and always fiercely supportive of the frail vulnerable people it seeks to help - Advice Line phone number 020 7359 8136 Monday – Friday from 9:30am to 4:30pm. See Flyer.

This scheme is run by Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust in partnership with Merton Council Library & Heritage Services. See flyer for more info.

Merton Outreach Visiting Team - or MOViT for short - offers residents of the borough help and advice on all welfare benefits and other services available from the Council and the voluntary sector. See flyer for more details.