The country’s leading health and social care professionals have joined forces to urge their frontline colleagues to get the vital first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine over the coming weeks. A letter being circulated to all local NHS employers, councils and social care providers, calls on frontline workers who are eligible for the vaccine to do […]

Issued at: 8.48am on Thursday 28 January 2021 There is a 90% probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 6pm on Friday 29 January and 9am on Tuesday 2 February in parts of England.  This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Find out more about staying […]

NHS staff will be delivering life-saving COVID jabs at a network of more than 1,400 vaccinations sites when dozens more open their doors today. 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 outside of a trial at Coventry […]

Issued at 9.03am on Tuesday 26 January 2021. There is a 60% probability of severe cold weather, icy conditions and possibly heavy snow between 9am on Tuesday 26 January and 9am on Sunday 31 January in parts of England.  This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. […]

Issued at: 9.07am on Monday 25 January 2021. There is a 90 % probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 12am on Tuesday 26 January and 12am on Wednesday 27 January in parts of England.  This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Find out more […]

NHS staff will start delivering life-saving Covid vaccinations at the Blackpool Winter Gardens, a former DIY store and the museum where BBC hit Peaky Blinders was filmed today. The new NHS Vaccination Centres are among more than 30 opening across the country as the vaccination drive continues to accelerate. There is now a network of […]

More than 30 new NHS Vaccine Centres will start delivering life-saving Covid jabs this week as the health service continues to accelerate the biggest immunisation programme in its history. The Black Country Living Museum, where the BBC filmed the hit drama Peaky Blinders based on the notorious Birmingham gang in the 1920s, is among the […]

Issued at: 8.38am on Friday 22 January 2021.  There is a 90% probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 9am on Friday 22 January and 12am on Tuesday 26 January in parts of England.  This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Find out more about staying […]

Issued at 9.01am on Thursday 21 January 2021. There is a 80% probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 9am on Thursday 21 January and 9am on Monday 25 January in parts of England.  This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Find out more about staying […]

Life-saving coronavirus vaccinations will be delivered from a cinema and a mosque from today as the NHS’s largest immunisation programme continues to accelerate. A Mosque in Birmingham and the Odeon in Aylesbury are among dozens of new sites that have started to offer the service for those in the highest priority groups. High Street pharmacies […]