Latest Covid-19 news from across Lancashire and South Cumbria
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NHS Chief Simon Stevens receives COVID-19 jab
Posted: 18th March 2021NHS Chief Executive Sir Simon Stevens today joined nearly 22 million people in England who have received their first COVID-19 jab. Today marks another important milestone on the NHS vaccine rollout, with more than half of adults across England set to…
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Lancashire and South Cumbria vaccination programme update
Posted: 17th March 2021Partners across Lancashire and South Cumbria are working really hard to make sure that we’re vaccinating as many people as possible in line with the national guidelines.
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NHS invites everyone Aged 50 and over to be jabbed as vaccination programme marks 100th day
Posted: 17th March 2021While the whole of the NHS doubles down to urge everyone already invited to take up the offer, new invitations are now going out nationally to millions of people aged 50 to 54 in the latest stage of the programme, the biggest in NHS history and…
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NHS text alerts for life-saving COVID-19 jab
Posted: 10th March 2021The NHS has begun texting people to invite them to book their life-saving COVID-19 jab, making it quicker and more convenient to get an appointment.
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NHS invites people aged 55 to 59 for their COVID jab
Posted: 8th March 2021Letters to 850,000 people aged 55 to 59 began landing on doorsteps across England.
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NHS invites people aged 60-plus to get life-saving Covid-19 vaccination
Posted: 1st March 2021Almost two million people aged 60 to 63 will be invited to book a Covid jab this week as the NHS vaccination programme, the biggest in health service history, gains fresh momentum.
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Lancashire and South Cumbria COVID-19 vaccination hits major milestone
Posted: 25th February 2021In a major milestone, more than half a million patients have now been vaccinated against coronavirus in Lancashire and South Cumbria.
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NHS in Lancashire and South Cumbria Urges People Aged 65 to 69 to Book Their Vaccine This Week
Posted: 22nd February 2021Anyone aged 65 to 69 who has not been vaccinated is now being urged to respond to their recent invite to get their life-saving coronavirus vaccine at one of the more than 7 vaccination centres and 9 pharmacy-led sites across Lancashire and South…
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Hundreds invited to new NHS vaccination centre in Preston City Centre
Posted: 18th February 2021Hundreds of people aged 65 and over and those who are clinically vulnerable are being invited to book a coronavirus vaccination at a new NHS large scale vaccination centre at St Johns Shopping Centre in Preston. The centre will be located in the…
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New technology to help identify those at high risk from COVID-19
Posted: 17th February 2021New technology has been introduced in England to help clinicians identify, for the first time, a new group of people who may be at high risk from COVID-19.