Category: COVID-19
Walk-in COVID booster appointments now available for Bedfordshire residents
NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group (BLMK CCG) has expanded the opportunities for the public to get their COVID-19 booster vaccination by opening up walk-in appointments.
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Thousands in BLMK given a ‘boost’ from the NHS
Records show people in Bedfordshire have already received their COVID-19 booster, and BLMK CCG is encouraging everyone that is eligible to book when invited.
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Vaccine playing part in restricting COVID hospitalisations and deaths, but case rates rising again, meeting told
Around four in every five adults in Central Bedfordshire have been vaccinated against COVID-19, a meeting heard.
The 80 per cent figure is short of the 90 per cent target, Central Bedfordshire Council’s (CBC) social care, health and housing overview and scrutiny committee was told.
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Grants for Central Bedfordshire groups to tackle vaccine hesitancy
Grants of up to £2000 are now available to groups across Central Bedfordshire to help them to encourage their members to take up the vaccination.
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Bedford Borough Council is providing free taxi rides for COVID jabs
Bedford Borough Council is offering free taxi rides to residents to and from Bedford Borough vaccination sites.
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Bedford Borough Council issues reminder about back to school COVID-19 testing
With schools and colleges opening after the summer break next week, secondary school and college age students, including pupils in Year 7 and 8 at middle school, will be required to take two onsite lateral flow tests at the start of the term, which will take place between three to five days apart.
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Pregnant and breast-feeding women urged to get their vaccine
Pregnant and breast-feeding women across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) are being urged to come forward for their free COVID-19 vaccination to protect them and their baby.
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Bedford Borough Council offers grants to local groups to increase vaccine take up
Bedford Borough Council is making funding available to support local groups and organisations to help address what it called ‘COVID-19 vaccine inequalities’ and to encourage further take-up across all age and ethnic groups, geographical areas and vulnerable groups.
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COVID contact tracing in Bedford put back in the hands of NHS Test and Trace as public health chiefs hope to persuade unvaccinated
Contact tracing has been switched off in Bedford as public health chiefs turn their efforts to persuading the unvaccinated to get jabbed.
A meeting was told that although case rates are falling in the borough they are still high and calling the unvaccinated is now a better use of resources.
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New strategy involving peer pressure and social media to encourage young people in Bedfordshire to have Covid jab
A different strategy is being used by health managers to persuade young people across Bedfordshire to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a meeting heard.
Currently only one in three in the 18- to 29-year-old age group is having the jab, BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group’s governing body was told.
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NHS COVID-19 drop-in vaccination centre at Cranfield University
A drop-in NHS COVID-19 vaccination centre will be at Cranfield University, this Friday (30 July 2021) between 11am-5pm for anyone who can attend including staff, students and the local community. There is no need to book an appointment.
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Contact tracing ‘cannot cope’ with rapid rise in infections
A rapid rise in covid cases linked to people becoming infected during the European football championships is overwhelming Bedford’s contact tracing system, a meeting heard.
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