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NHS Bookings Open For Autumn Booster Vaccines in the East Midlands

The NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme will begin to invite eligible people in the East Midlands to come forward for their life-saving autumn booster jabs from today. Frontline health and care workers, people who are immunosuppressed and people who are 75 and over will able to book in for the variant-targeted vaccine from 7am this morning. Over 2 million of the most vulnerable people to Covid-19 in […]

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Get to Know Your Numbers this week

Do you know your blood pressure number? Heart and circulatory disease, also known as cardiovascular disease (CVD), causes a quarter of all deaths in the UK; in the Midlands, this is around 2,300 deaths each month.   Knowing your blood pressure number is very important to get the help you need, at the time you need […]

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NHS To Roll Out Variant Busting Booster Jab From September Ahead of Winter

The NHS will become the first healthcare system in the world to use the next generation, bivalent covid vaccine when it kickstarts the autumn booster rollout in early September. Following the updated advice from the JCVI on Monday, the NHS has now set out plans for the next phase of the covid-19 vaccination programme – […]

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NHS urges A-level students to consider a career in healthcare

The NHS is urging any students who have received their A-level results today and are still considering their options to choose a career in nursing or midwifery. Already this year, 37,330 people in England have signed up for a nursing degree, a 31% increase from 2019 (28,480)*. While many A-level students have already chosen nursing […]

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NHS Expands Lifesaving Home-Testing Kits For Bowel Cancer in the West Midlands

Home-testing kits that can help detect early-stage bowel cancer will be rolled out to 58-year-olds in the West Midlands for the first time, as part of a major expansion of the lifesaving screening programme.   People aged 58 years will be automatically sent a Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) once eligible, which can detect early signs of […]

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NHS Expands Lifesaving Home-Testing Kits For Bowel Cancer in the East Midlands

Home-testing kits that can help detect early-stage bowel cancer will be rolled out to 58-year-olds in the East Midlands for the first time, as part of a major expansion of the lifesaving screening programme.   People aged 58 years will be automatically sent a Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) once eligible, which can detect early signs of […]

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Young people have their say in shaping diabetes services across the Midlands

Youth voice experts, Participation People, has joined forces with NHS Midlands to launch a ground-breaking Young Inspectors programme which will review diabetes services across the region. Kickstarting in July, Participation People will recruit, train and support 15 young people – half of whom live with diabetes – to offer a fresh perspective on the quality […]

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