Cases of whooping cough are continuing to rise.
🤰 If you are pregnant, it's important to get the whooping cough vaccine to protect your newborn baby, as they are at greatest risk.
➡️ Find out more:
This World Contraception Day, remember you can visit your local pharmacy to begin oral contraception. The pharmacist can give you advice you in a private consultation room and initiate you on oral contraception.
➡️ Visit the NHS website to learn more:
Need medical help? Use 111 online to get assessed and directed to the right place for you, like a consultation with a pharmacist.
➡️ Find more information about 111 here:
On 19 November
@BWC_NHS
are hosting a Career Development Workshop for Care Leavers.
If you're care experienced, over 16 years of age and live in the West Midlands why not come along to find out more about careers in the NHS?
To find out more, contact navsharma
@nhs
.net
Jamie Theakston's bravery in speaking up about cancer may have saved lives - prompting one person every 16 seconds to check symptoms on our website.
Today I'm in Birmingham with
@wesstreeting
seeing one of our cancer buses that go into communities to improve early detection. ⬇️
🚌 Health and Social Care Secretary
@WesStreeting
hopped on board
@NHSBSol
's cancer bus and liver cancer van with
@NHSEngland
Chief Executive
@AmandaPritchard
.
These vehicles tour local communities, providing scans and screening information to detect cancer as early as possible.
Hear from our Chair,
@ppvernon
, as he shares health and care updates for
#Birmingham
and
#Solihull
from our latest board meeting, held on Monday 9 September.
➡️ Watch Board in Brief on YouTube:
It's been a busy day at the
@BSol_ICS
Social Value Conference at
@millenniumpoint
where 150 suppliers and 60 of our Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations have come together, creating future partnerships that will benefit our citizens.
The A&E at Midland Met – our new hospital – will have a raft of benefits for patients.
Opening on 6 October, Emergency Department Matron Michael has this important info.
Find out more here:
#MoreThanAHospital
@NHSBSol
@NHSinBlkCountry
We were delighted to host MPs
@bhatti_saqib
and
@DrNShastriHurst
at GPS Healthcare's Village Surgery today to learn about its work delivering care to its patients and the wider work of our GP Provider Support Unit to improve access to primary care more broadly.
Do you have an administration background, with excellent organisational, time management and communication skills? If so, this vacancy could be for you ⤵️
📝 Senior Executive Assistant
🗓️ Closes 22 September 2024
➡️ Learn more and apply today:
Struggling with feelings of depression, excessive worry, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress or obsessions and compulsions? NHS Talking Therapies can help. The service is effective, confidential and free.
➡️ Your GP can refer you or refer yourself at
Ear ache? If needed, your pharmacist can now provide treatment and some prescription medicine without seeing a GP.
Think pharmacy first.
➡️ Find out more:
“This has been particularly inspirational. I feel that the future is here in East Birmingham.”
Our chief executive
@ConfedMatthew
, shares some reflections from a visit to
@NHSBSol
, with staff from our primary care and mental health networks.
#CelebratingCommunityServices
Our cancer bus is at St Andrew's Shopping Park in Small Heath today ⤵️
🗓️ 6 September
🕙 10am to 4pm
📍 St Andrew's Shopping Park, B10 0XA
🚌 A team of experts will be onboard our cancer bus, answering cancer queries and sharing advice.
➡️ Learn more:
Struggling with feelings of depression, excessive worry, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress or obsessions and compulsions? NHS Talking Therapies can help. The service is effective, confidential and free.
➡️ Your GP can refer you or refer yourself at
Our cancer bus is in Aston today ⤵️
🗓️ 4 September
🕙 10am to 4pm
📍 Aston Tesco Superstore, Tesco, B6 6QR
🚌 A team of experts will be onboard our cancer bus, answering your cancer queries and sharing advice.
➡️ Learn more:
Cases of whooping cough are continuing to rise.
🤰 If you are pregnant, it's important to get the whooping cough vaccine to protect your newborn baby, as they are at greatest risk.
➡️ Visit the
#NHS
website to find out more about
#whoopingcough
:
Struggling with feelings of depression, excessive worry, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress or obsessions and compulsions? NHS Talking Therapies can help. The service is effective, confidential and free.
➡️ Your GP can refer you or refer yourself at