A report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has said the NHS Vaccination Programme met “stretching and unprecedented targets” as it helped save lives and reduce hospital admissions – all while making effective use of public money. Commenting on the findings, GP and deputy lead for the NHS Vaccination Programme, Dr Nikki Kanani, said: “The […]
A therapy dog called Ruby and a mini toy town full of fun to help keep young people calm while they get their jabs are just some of the attractions lined up by NHS staff and volunteers to get children vaccinated during half term. As many schools are on half term this week, the NHS […]
Jab cabs, booster buses and local initiatives including a walk-in clinic at V’s Punjabi Grill in Kent are helping to protect thousands of people from COVID as part of the NHS vaccination programme’s drive to increase uptake by making the vaccine as accessible for all as possible. The ‘jab cabs’ are taking people to vaccine […]
More than four in five eligible adults aged 18 or over have now had their life-saving booster vaccine as the NHS COVID-19 Vaccination Programme, the biggest and fastest in health history, continues to protect the nation from the threat of Omicron. The NHS ramped up capacity last month to roll out booster jabs at unprecedented […]
In October we celebrate Black history: from the nurses and midwives who came over from the Caribbean to establish a post-war NHS; to the scientists, mathematicians, writers, and leaders whose action and ideas helped shape the modern world. Nurses and midwives form the largest collective professional group within the NHS, and one in every five […]
The NHS COIVD vaccination programme has protected more than 700,000 people from ethnic minority backgrounds since rolling out the grab-a-jab campaign. An analysis of one grab-a-jab weekend in July found that 2 in 5 of the 80,000 walk-in doses administered were to people from ethnic minority groups, significantly more than the proportion in the wider […]
NHS staff who were on the frontline in the battle against COVID-19 will be at the heart of a special service of commemoration and thanksgiving to be held at St Paul’s Cathedral on Monday 5 July, the anniversary of the health service’s foundation. Dr Ashley Price, a member of the team who treated the very […]
Patients will have better, more joined up care as Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), which require all parts of the NHS to work with each other and their partners, are rolled out across the country from next month. NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens today confirmed that the final 13 areas, serving 14.9 million people, will […]
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 […]
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 […]