Following a surge in serious cases of flu among under-fives in the Midlands, parents are being urged to make sure that their children are vaccinated if they are eligible for the flu vaccine. Across England, hospitalisations in young children are over 44% higher than the last pre-pandemic year (2019/20), with around 650 children under five […]
The NHS is asking patients in the Midlands to use services wisely during industrial action and take simple steps to help ensure care is available to patients who need it most. This includes using 111 online as the first port of call for health needs and continuing to only use 999 if it is a […]
People in the Midlands should continue to come forward for the care they need during industrial action, the NHS has said today. Everyone needing urgent medical care should continue to come forward, especially in emergency and life-threatening cases – when someone is seriously ill or injured, or their life is at risk. The NHS will […]
People in the East Midlands are being urged to get boosted ahead of Christmas and New Year. With cases of COVID-19 on the rise again and people set to gather from across the country for the festive and new year celebrations, the NHS is urging anyone eligible to get back up to around 90 per […]
People in the West Midlands are being urged to get boosted ahead of Christmas and New Year. With cases of COVID-19 on the rise again and people set to gather from across the country for the festive and new year celebrations, the NHS is urging anyone eligible to get back up to around 90 per […]
The NHS in the Midlands is marking the second-year anniversary of the COVID vaccine rollout by paying a special tribute to the monumental effort of NHS staff, pharmacies and volunteers who have delivered over 27 million vaccinations since the campaign began on 8 December 2020. The biggest vaccine campaign in NHS history began in the […]
Six state of the art NHS care coordination centres today go live across the West Midlands, less than six weeks after initial guidance was issued by NHS chiefs. The innovative, around the clock care coordination centres were just one of the measures announced as part of NHS winter planning in October alongside falls response […]
Five state of the art NHS care coordination centres today go live across the East Midlands, less than six weeks after initial guidance was issued by NHS chiefs. The innovative, around the clock care coordination centres were just one of the measures announced as part of NHS winter planning in October alongside falls response […]
A new gambling clinic has opened in Stoke-on-Trent, as the NHS works to meet demand for specialist support for gambling addiction, with the latest figures showing that the number of people seeking help in England increased by over two-fifths in a year. To coincide with the World Cup, new NHS figures were published last week […]
The NHS COVID-19 autumn booster campaign in the Midlands has now provided extra protection to over three million people in the region. The Midlands is the first region in England to hit the milestone and has achieved 3,003,647 of the country’s total vaccinations of 15,363,515. So far, over 853,858 autumn booster appointments in the East […]