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Shrewsbury Town teams up with NHS to urge BAME people to prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes
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 […]
Celebrities Join Forces with NHS and Public Health England to Encourage Lung Cancer Checks in East Midlands
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 […]
Celebrities Join Forces with NHS and Public Health England to Encourage Lung Cancer Checks in West Midlands
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 Thanks Staff And Urges Vulnerable To Get Covid Jab
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 […]
Pioneering partnership makes it easier for people to start their NHS career in the Midlands
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 […]
Ludlow Racecourse among the latest sites helping to deliver Covid vaccinations
Ludlow Racecourse is one of 39 new large-scale NHS vaccination centres to go live in the country this week along with 63 more pharmacy-led sites as the biggest immunisation programme in health service history continues to accelerate. The expansion follows a major milestone with residents at all eligible care homes having been offered a jab […]
Midlands people with anxiety and depression urged not to suffer in silence during lockdown
People in the Midlands who feel their mental health has suffered during lockdown are being urged to seek the NHS mental health support they need. Latest figures show one in five fewer people are coming forward in the Midlands to access support for anxiety and depression. People are being urged to seek help straight away […]
NHS Confirms Covid Jab Now Offered At Every Eligible Care Home in the Midlands
Official figures later today are expected to confirm that the NHS has now offered the Covid-19 vaccine to residents at every eligible care home with older residents across the Midlands. The small remainder have had their visits deferred by local directors of public health for safety reasons during a local outbreak. Those homes will be […]
More vaccination sites in the Midlands open their doors
More vaccination sites are now available in the Midlands as NHS staff continue to deliver life-saving Covid jabs. There is now a network of more than 1,400 vaccinations sites nationally. The milestone has been hit just seven weeks after Maggie Keenan, 91, became the first person in the world to be vaccinated against the virus […]
New vaccination centres in the Midlands join biggest NHS jab drive
NHS staff will start delivering life-saving Covid vaccinations in the Midlands at Derby Arena, a former DIY store and the museum where BBC hit Peaky Blinders was filmed today. The new NHS Vaccination Centres in the Midlands are among more than 30 opening across the country as the vaccination drive continues to accelerate. There is […]