Nothing to it! Brethren deliver enthusiastic response to PSA testing facility

If the PSA testing scheme that ran on the day of the Provincial Grand Lodge and Chapter meetings helps just one person, it will have been worthwhile, according to PGM Dave Wheeler.

A debrief about the testing exercise will nevertheless be undertaken, he said. “We have tried something different in offering PSA tests to our Brethren, and I thank Bruce Goodman for his work in arranging this together with the CHAPS Charity and the Trustees of the Old Provincial Benevolent Fund for arranging the funds to pay for it.

Chris Booth from CHAPS

“If it has worked well then this will become an annual event at the Provincial meeting. If today is the wrong day for completing the tests, then we will look at arranging another suitable time and place. However, we will continue with this initiative as, if we help just one person, then it has been worthwhile,” he added.

Two hundred people booked in to be tested, and will con contacted with the results in due course. Those will all be colour-coded, with green meaning everything’s OK for now, amber meaning a watch needs to be kept, and red indicating that follow up appointments would be necessary.

All the brethren who came forward to be tested had the procedure and the ailment explained to them by Chris Booth from the charity as they passed through the testing ‘window’ which ran from 10am to 2pm in a dedicated area inside the robing room, which CHAPS said had been ideal.

Bruce Goodman, who had set up the arrangement, confessed that he had been a little anxious in the run up to the day, but that he was pleased with the response.

More pictures from the day by Ralf Galloway

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