Sixteen frontline charities have formed a new partnership to encourage people in the Midlands with long-term health conditions and their carers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Organisations including Diabetes UK, The British Heart Foundation, Macmillan Cancer Support and Mencap are joining with the Department of Health and the NHS to promote vaccine uptake among those […]

People aged 60 to 63 in the West Midlands are now being invited to get their life-saving coronavirus vaccine at one of the vaccination centres and pharmacy-led sites across the region. The latest batch of letters, arriving from today, will mean everyone in the first seven priority groups will have been offered a jab. People […]

People aged 60 to 63 in the East Midlands are now being invited to get their life-saving coronavirus vaccine at one of the vaccination centres and pharmacy-led sites across the region. The latest batch of letters arriving from today will mean everyone in the first seven priority groups will have been offered a jab. People […]

Anyone aged 65 to 69 in the East Midlands who has not been vaccinated is now being urged to respond to their recent invite to get their life-saving coronavirus vaccine at one of the vaccination centres and pharmacy-led sites across the region. Due to the continued success of the programme and the availability of supplies, […]

Anyone aged 65 to 69 in the West Midlands who has not been vaccinated is now being urged to respond to their recent invite to get their life-saving coronavirus vaccine at one of the vaccination centres and pharmacy-led sites across the region. Due to the continued success of the programme and the availability of supplies, […]

Shrewsbury Town Football Club has teamed up with the NHS to get behind a special campaign urging black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) people to take action to prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes. People living with diabetes face a significantly higher risk of dying with Covid-19, with nearly a third of […]

People in the East Midlands are being urged to get checked if they test negative for Covid-19 but have a persistent cough. Sir Andrew Strauss, the ex-England cricket captain who lost his wife to lung cancer, has backed the NHS and Public Health England Help Us Help You campaign to encourage lung cancer checks Television […]

People in the West Midlands are being urged to get checked if they test negative for Covid-19 but have a persistent cough. Sir Andrew Strauss, the ex-England cricket captain who lost his wife to lung cancer, has backed the NHS and Public Health England Help Us Help You campaign to encourage lung cancer checks. Television […]

NHS chief Sir Simon Stevens visited the Midlands today and thanked NHS staff across the country for their contribution to the successful start to the NHS Covid vaccine programme, which has in less than ten weeks already seen more than nine out of ten people aged 70 and over take up the offer to be […]

People looking to start a career as an NHS healthcare support worker in the Midlands are now able to join the service more quickly, thanks to a national partnership with job site Indeed. NHS England and NHS Improvement is working alongside Indeed to promote the range of NHS healthcare support worker roles that are available […]