Across the North West, more than 60 vaccination sites are offering walk-in appointments as part of a week-long push on walk-in sites to increase protection against the Omicron variant. The Week of Walk-ins initiative, which runs from today (Monday 17 January) to Sunday, 23 January, aims to raise awareness of how easy and convenient it […]
One year ago on 14th January 2021, pharmacy teams started giving the COVID-19 vaccination, starting in Macclesfield and Widnes. It was at 8am when 82-year-old Robert Salt became one of the first in the country to receive his COV ID-19 vaccination from Andrew Hodgson, Chief Pharmacist at Andrew’s Pharmacy in Macclesfield. Andrew’s Pharmacy is still […]
NHS North West’s vaccination lead is encouraging people to book in for their booster jab, with more than 158,000 appointments still available this week – as the region passed the 14 million Covid vaccine dose milestone. Over 158,000 appointments are available to book in the region between today and Sunday, with staff and volunteers on […]
The NHS in the North West is celebrating more than 1.5 million jabs delivered in one year at mass vaccination sites. One year ago today (January 11), the first large scale vaccination site at the Etihad Tennis Centre in Manchester opened its doors to eligible people to get their life-saving Covid-19 jabs. The site, based […]
The NHS in the North West delivered a record number of Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday, marking the end of a bumper week as the region races to protect as many people as possible before Christmas. NHS staff and volunteers pulled out all the stops to vaccinate record numbers of people with 101,310 on Saturday, and […]
Since the NHS announced that every adult would be offered a booster vaccination by the end of 2021, the NHS in the North West has quickly ramped up further capacity for the vaccination programme. In the first two days since the Prime Minister’s national address, more than 125,000 people have received a dose of the […]
The NHS vaccination programme will offer every adult in the North West the chance to book a Covid-19 booster vaccine by the end of the year in a race to protect the region against the Omicron variant. As part of the biggest and fastest vaccination programme in health service history, online bookings are now […]
Dr Linda Charles-Ozuzu, Regional Director of Commissioning for NHS England and NHS Improvement and SRO for the Vaccination Programme in the North West. In the last 12 months, we have delivered more than 12 million vaccinations to protect the population of the North West against COVID-19. 90.1% of the adult population have had their first […]
Compassionate and caring staff across the NHS in the North West are putting patients and their families first during the hardest times in their lives and ensuring end of life care is everyone’s business. National Grief Awareness Week runs from 1 – 8 December this year and the Good Grief Trust want to raise awareness […]
The NHS in the North West is celebrating a double milestone in the Covid-19 vaccination programme after achieving 12 million doses in less than 12 months, including delivering the first 2 million boosters. The latest figures show the 12 millionth vaccine has been given more than a week ahead of the first anniversary of the […]