Posts Tagged ‘health’
Hackney residents urged to book Covid booster before programme ends on Sunday
Over-50s and people who are immunosuppressed or pregnant can get a jab this week
Read MoreNHS campaigners urge council to fight for beloved hospital in Hoxton – before it is ‘forever lost’
Activists ask Town Hall to lobby government for cash to ensure St Leonard’s is kept for patients
Read MoreMovement Medicine
The importance of getting moving and feeling ‘totally uninhibited’
Read More‘I’ve never had this sort of help’: Support services praised as drug-related deaths in Hackney fall to lowest level in a decade
Borough bucks national trend after receiving £1 million in government funding
Read MoreCouncil ‘determined’ to forge ahead with Kings Hall Leisure Centre refurbishment despite ‘significant financial challenges’
Town Hall procurement committee set to approve £35m plans – with ‘doing nothing simply not an option’
Read MoreHomerton Hospital’s support for staff during pandemic sees it nominated for national award
The local NHS trust’s director of people said the hospital is ‘immensely proud’
Read MorePolio boosters to be offered to under-10s after virus is picked up in eight London boroughs – including Hackney
Health experts confirm polio has spread within the community, but stressed that risk to wider population is still low
Read More‘An attack on women’s bodily autonomy’: Hackney politicians protest US Supreme Court’s decision to end abortion rights
Ruling has ‘reset the clock to a time when the constitution was written by slave-owners’, says Cllr Carole Williams
Read MorePollution-blocking green screens to be rolled out in schools across Hackney
Thirty-two schools are set to receive the natural barriers to protect youngsters from toxic air
Read MoreSexual health service launches in Hackney to tackle ‘unfair and avoidable’ inequalities
Project Community will provide free advice and supplies to the borough’s global majority residents
Read MorePoliovirus detected in sewage from north-east London – with UK health bosses urging people to get vaccinated
Health Security Agency triggers national incident after finding two samples of the same virus at Beckton treatment works
Read MoreHomerton Hospital’s new chief executive vows to ‘maintain its reputation for excellence’
Louise Ashley once worked in the Homerton’s children’s wards as a nurse, and rejoins having turned around the fortunes of Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Read MoreElderly patient switched off home oxygen supply to save money on electricity, local health boss reveals
Staff member at GP practice was in tears after woman explained she couldn’t afford to run the system
Read MoreHomerton Hospital boss warns it will take ‘months, not weeks’ to replace staff at beleaguered fertility unit
Acting chief executive Dylan Jones urges patients to get in touch with concerns after staff shortages forced the hospital to pause treatment
Read MoreSix patients with monkeypox are being treated at Homerton Hospital
Medics say virus ‘does not spread easily’ and the risk to the general population is ‘low’
Read MoreSaved for next time: Covid documents to be archived for ‘future generations’
The plans and operational paperwork will be kept available, should future public health officials need to learn lessons from the two-year crisis
Read More‘Hackney still not past Omicron peak,’ warn local medics
Doctors estimate that 8.2 per cent of local residents had Covid last week
Read More‘The pandemic has not gone away,’ warns Hackney’s public health boss
Cases in City and Hackney have risen by nearly a quarter in the last week
Read More‘Strong about-turn’: Covid cases rise in Hackney following the lifting of restrictions
‘If these figures do continue they are signalling a very, very unwelcome change of trend’
Read More‘On autopilot without a map’: Hackney Mayor condemns government decision to end free Covid testing
Philip Glanville says move is ‘wrong and unsupported by the science’
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