Almost 1,000 vulnerable people at risk of serious illness and hospitalisation from COVID-19 have now been treated with new lifesaving medicines by the NHS in the North West. This has contributed to 10,000 people nationally being treated with these medicines since the launch of the scheme in December. Seven COVID Medicine Delivery Units (CDMUs) have […]

Health and care teams across the North West region are already responding to the national drive to recover services and reduce waiting lists that have built up as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Dr David Levy who is the regional medical director for the NHS. The NHS and government have set out […]

Sue Lott, Head of Community North and County Acute & Prisons, Adult Social Care, Lancashire County Council In January 2021 Lancashire County Council, NHS England and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay recognised that there was an opportunity to develop a new offer that would enable some people to go home from hospital in a safe […]

Teams from the NHS, social care and voluntary sector are working together, to come up with innovative ways to improve care for people and reduce pressures on health and care services.  One example of a small scheme but with big potential, has been developed by Lancashire County Council, NHS England and University Hospitals of Morecambe […]

Today, the NHS will launch a new landmark campaign using the iconic Beatles song ‘Help!” to get the North West taking better care of their mental health. Backed by some of the UK’s biggest artists, the campaign will encourage people struggling with their mental health to seek support. ‘Help!’, written by John Lennon in 1964, was […]

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 […]

Dear colleagues, We start the New Year having delivered an astonishing 13.8 million vaccinations to protect our population against COVID-19, including almost 3.5 million boosters and third doses as we race to increase people’s immunity against the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Over the last 23 days, since the Prime Minister and the NHS launched an […]

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 […]