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Content originally from Healthwatch Essex Healthwatch Essex has published their latest update for May 2021. The update includes: Healthwatch Essex shares Mental Health Awareness Week messagesCollaborate Essex Forum Member shares experiences of being deaf in COVID-19We're looking for new Young Mental Health Ambassadors to join our teamHealthwatch Essex takes part in Dying Matters WeekWhat's on … Continue reading Healthwatch Essex May Update

Peter Blackman, Chairman of SWF Health & Social Care Group, spoke on the morning show of BBC Essex regarding GP appointments. He described our recent findings about how things work in SWF which explained what our Practices at CVMC have done, the phone triage system and the request that people asking about vaccinations and other … Continue reading BBC Essex

Dying Matters Week Events- Are you in a Good Place to Die? A series of free events running from 10th May - 16th May are available.

On Sunday 2 May: KEEP PROCEEDING WITH CAUTION PLEASE! Roadmap Step 2 relaxations including Rule of 6/2 households outdoors in place! SWF Health & Social Care Group continues to work collaboratively with the Town’s GPs & Pharmacists. Since March 2020 we’ve delivered over 6600 tasks. If we maintain our guard, our discipline and stick to … Continue reading An Update from Us 02.05.2021

Content originally from Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Maternity services launch focus groups to improve careWe are strengthening the support we provide to families from ethnic minority communities using our maternity services and our staff from ethnic minority backgrounds who work in our women and children’s department. To help do this, we are … Continue reading An update from our hospitals

An invitation to be involved and have your say about the Ambulance Service.

Content originally from Office for National Statistics Washing hands, covering faces and keeping two metres apart (“hands, face, space”) became a way of life during the coronavirus pandemic. And during lockdowns, so did keeping away from friends and loved ones. In a study, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) sought to understand what influences people … Continue reading In their own words: How different people respond to coronavirus guidance

Every year in May, Dying Matters Week gives us an opportunity to place the importance of talking about dying, death and bereavement firmly on the national agenda.

Content originally from Public Health England As many as 40,000 people contacted through NHS Test and Trace will be offered the opportunity to participate in a daily contact testing study that has been set up to test people who have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. The study will take … Continue reading Daily contact tracing study launches to potentially minimise self-isolation period

Content originally from GOV.UK The COVID-19 vaccination programme is the biggest to have ever taken place in the UK. Over 48 million doses have now been administered, which is estimated to have prevented over 10,400 deaths in England up to the end of March. Recently, there have been reports of an extremely rare condition involving … Continue reading COVID-19 vaccines: JCVI recommendations on the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine