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Let’s talk social distancing with the Young Essex Assembly
Social distancing has been hard for lots of us over the past couple of months and for some children and young people it might still be something they are finding difficult.
An update from our hospitals
An update from Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnerships.
Duncan Selbie’s Friday Message – 12 June 2020
Chief Executive of Public Health England's weekly update.
Even more sombre news
A total of 15 deaths for SWF North and SWF South according to the Office for National Statistics provisional data for Deaths Involving COVID-19 by local area. Notice of the notes of explanation as to the context and how the results must be read is crucial.
Further support for health and care staff
A new national service to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to GP practices and other NHS providers has been launched. This allows all our surgeries to order a free top-up of PPE every week.
Action for Family Carers Newsletter
An excellent newsletter from one of the two providers of support to carers in SWF, the other being Carers First.
New NHS Diabetes Advice helpline launched
NHS England and NHS Improvement have launched a new Diabetes Advice helpline for adults living with diabetes who use insulin to manage their condition and need immediate advice.
Questions please…
SWF Health & Social Care Group is starting a series of Q&A sessions in varying formats with key health & social care providers. One of the first is a written Q&A with one of SWF's leading GPs based at Crouch Vale Medical Centre.
Preliminary results from RECOVERY trial on the use of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised patients with COVID-19
Content originally from Medical Research Council The ‘RECOVERY’ trial has released preliminary results showing no effect on mortality from the use of hydroxychloroquine in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. The RECOVERY trial (which stands for ‘Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY’) was funded by UKRI as part of the UKRI/DHSC/NIHR COVID-19 rapid research response. To … Continue reading Preliminary results from RECOVERY trial on the use of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised patients with COVID-19
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