MGA News Summer 2003

Many of the branches will know that we have been working very hard over the recent months to improve on the service that we can offer branches both in terms of administering their branch ‘membership’ and in providing support for the provision of listings, labels and mailings.

We are eventually beginning to achieve these objectives and it is all thanks to the support and encouragement that we have received from many branches and individuals throughout the UK. By now, all branches should have been contacted by their respective Regional Organiser (RO) to agree precisely which postal areas they wish to take responsibility for as far as their branch is concerned. There will inevitably be some overlap in the initial stages but we would encourage all branches to agree between themselves where their boundaries end and the neighbouring branch’s commences. Your RO will be able to facilitate this for you. We would like to emphasis that it is for the branch to say which postal areas they wish to cover. We at Derby will not impose any postal areas on the branches. However, where two or more branches insist on covering the same postal areas, they need to be aware that people living in these areas will receive multiple mailings both from the branches concerned and also from the ROs where conflicting branches fall into different RO Regions. Obviously, this is a waste of money and could be irritating for the person receiving the mailings, so we would strongly encourage all branches to speak to each other and agree where their boundaries lie.

Note. A postal area, for these purposes, consists of the left part of the UK postcode up to the space. Ie. ‘DE21’, ‘DE24’, etc. This is a small enough division to be a workable solution but not so complicated as going right down to the next level - eg, ‘DE21 4’, or ‘DE24 7’, etc.

Please help us to help you and help the person suffering from MG, by taking a positive attitude to this initiative. We would ask that branches discard any historical references or boundaries and look at this afresh. The ROs are there to help you. Please make use of them.

Please help us to help you and help the person suffering from MG, by taking a positive attitude to this initiative. We would ask that branches discard any historical references or boundaries and look at this afresh. The ROs are there to help you. Please make use of them.

Could we further ask all Branches to nominate a person in their Branch to act as First Contact and notify Support at Derby accordingly. Once we have resolved all the postal areas for all the branches, we will then be in a position to look up the details of the Branch’s First Contact and notify newly diagnosed patients of these details when they come onto our database and are sent an Information Pack.

Thank you all so very much for all the work and effort you are putting in to help us get this right

MGA NEWS Summer 2003

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