As the NHS starts to roll out its winter vaccinations campaign, residents in care homes and people who are housebound will be the first to be offered their covid and flu vaccinations, protecting those at greatest risk this winter. This vaccination campaign was brought forward after experts identified the emergence of a new covid variant. […]
With the second consultants’ two-day strike due to start early on Thursday 24 August, NHS services in the east of England are expecting yet more disruption. The warning around this latest industrial action was raised today by the region’s Chief Operating Officer, who highlighted the situation would be worsened by the high numbers of staff […]
An Essex mum who underwent surgery for breast cancer earlier this year has taken part in a top photoshoot to support a national awareness campaign by the NHS and major supermarket chain, Morrisons.
Thousands of NHS appointments and procedures are to be postponed across the region, as junior doctors plan their next strike at the end of this week. Junior doctors across the east of England will take begin their industrial action from 7am on Friday 11 August until 7am on Tuesday 15 August. This represents the ninth […]
Consultant doctors and hospital-based dentists will start their strike action between 7AM on Thursday 20 July through to 7AM on Saturday 22 July. This will be the first-time consultants have taken industrial action in over ten years, with widespread disruption expected across the NHS in the region. Adam Cayley, Chief Operating Officer for the NHS […]
Industrial action over the next fortnight will have a serious impact on the NHS here in the east of England, with services expected to face the most challenging period yet, warned a senior NHS executive in the east of England today. To ensure care continues to be available for those in life-threatening situations, NHS staff […]
Today is the 75th birthday of the NHS, founded on 5 July 1948, and born out of a long-held ideal that good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth. Here’s just a snapshot of some of the many celebrations that took place today across the region plus a few more still to come: […]
Three east of England NHS workers have been shortlisted from hundreds of NHS staff and volunteers, all competing to be winners in a photography competition, to help celebrate the 75th birthday of the NHS on the 5th of July. Their eye-catching photos can be seen below, capturing moments in any busy, average NHS working day. […]
THE LASTING gifts of the late “bowel babe” Dame Deborah James in talking openly about bowel cancer must continue to grow, says Holly Masters, who was diagnosed with the disease at the age of 23. Holly, from Cambridgeshire, co-chairs the East of England Cancer Alliances’ Patient Partnership Group and works to raise awareness of bowel […]
The east of England’s senior Director responsible for the roll-out of the covid spring booster campaign Ruth Ashmore, has called on people eligible for a covid jab, to book an appointment before the end of June. The NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Programme’s spring campaign will end this Friday 30 June. This will be the last day […]