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Over 200,000 people in Midlands receive lifesaving COVID-19 jabs in weekend vaccine drive

Over 200,000 people in the Midlands battled Storm Arwen and snow over the weekend to receive their lifesaving COVID-19 vaccination, as the NHS programme continues its drive to protect the most vulnerable ahead of Christmas. Sites included a vaccination bus at Nottingham’s Christmas Market, Highcross Shopping Centre, Leicester, the Mander Centre in Wolverhampton and Solihull […]

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2 million people in the Midlands receive top-up COVID-19 vaccination

Over two million people have now received their top-up COVID-19 vaccinations in the Midlands from the NHS in under nine weeks. The region became the first to hit the milestone after the NHS kicked off the booster programme on September 16, within two days of updated advice from the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and […]

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Patients in the Midlands are encouraged to return their unused pills to local pharmacies as part of Antibiotic Amnesty campaign

A new “Antibiotic Amnesty” campaign running across all community pharmacies in the Midlands is asking people to hand-in their old or unused antibiotics to any local pharmacy for safe disposal. Antibiotics should never be saved for later or shared with other people. Any unused medication needs to be disposed of safely at a pharmacy. Using […]

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NHS in the Midlands delivers one million COVID top-up jabs in six weeks

Over a million people in the Midlands have now had their COVID-19 top-up jab, as the NHS COVID-19 vaccination programme continues at pace to protect those most at risk from coronavirus. The region became the first to hit the milestone after the NHS kicked off the booster programme on September 16, within two days of […]

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Over 50s at risk of flu in the Midlands urged to get protected

People across the Midlands are being urged to get their flu jab ahead of a winter where both flu and COVID-19 will be circulating. There are more than two thousand venues in the Midlands offering flu vaccines for the 4 million over 50s still to be vaccinated. At a time of increased publicity around cases of […]

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