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Content originally Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System Welcome to our November 2023 edition This newsletter includes information about a number of important conversations with our residents underway this month across the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System.   Conversations include people’s views and experiences of inpatient care in our local community hospitals, experiences of … Continue reading Working with our people and communities

Sunday 12 November 2023  NHS England in what state? Any progress with Strike talks? SWF people’s health issues? Will Consultant and Junior Doctors strike again? These disputes must be settled. Junior and specialist English doctors announced talks with Government three weeks ago. What has happened?? The estimated £1billion+ cost of NHS  to provide cover could … Continue reading An Update from SWF Health & Social Care Group

Content originally from GOV.UK We know that health threats can have a disproportionate impact on different groups. This inequality can be due to differences in living and working conditions, access to and uptake of vaccination, testing and treatment, and underlying illnesses. Each of these risk factors can increase the chance of contracting an infection or … Continue reading Achieving more equitable outcomes: UKHSA Health Equity for Health Security Strategy

Content originally from Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System Welcome to Children's Health Matters: Winter Health Winter is here, and we know how worrying it can be when your child is unwell, which is why we've launched our Children's Health Matters campaign. Our aim is to equip you with the information and resources you … Continue reading Children’s Health Matters: What to do if your child is unwell

Content originally from Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System There's power in patient data If you care about cookies when you visit a website, you're probably interested in your data and what happens to it. Your health data, including age, gender, diagnoses and medications prescribed, in a way that does not identify you, is … Continue reading Your data and your views together make a difference

This mind map is a visual diagram used to organise data and information around a single topic.   Our independent Health, Welfare & Social Care Assessment of the SWF & Dengie Primary Care Network (PCN), summarised in the mind map, is the agenda selected jointly with the PCN staff, for action. Hypertension = high blood pressure. … Continue reading An Update from SWF Health & Social Care Group

This will deliver more hospital beds, improve the three A&E departments, and improve operating theatres in the next two years.

Content originally from Chelmsford City Council Many of us love Bonfire Night, but for pets, wildlife, babies, young children, and those with PTSD and anxiety, the loud noises and bright flashes that come with fireworks can be distressing.   This weekend, residents are encouraged to attend public firework displays where possible, to lessen the impact on those … Continue reading Residents asked to stick to Rocket O’Clock this weekend

Content originally from GOV.UK During both the summer and winter seasons, UKHSA and the Met Office monitor weather forecasts to help health and social care professionals, responders, the voluntary sector and the public cope with adverse weather. Where episodes of particularly hot or cold weather are identified, they carry out a joint dynamic risk assessment … Continue reading How Weather-Health Alerts differ from the National Severe Weather Warning Service