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The seventh annual #MedSafetyWeek social media campaign will take place 7 to 13 November 2022 and this year’s focus is the importance of reporting suspected adverse reactions to medicines and vaccines. We are also encouraging the reporting of suspected problems...
Whole families and households with primary school, secondary school and college age children, including childcare and support bubbles, will be able to test themselves twice every week from home as schools return from 8 March.
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At UNGA 2020 Boris Johnson outlined a new global approach to health security based on a 5-point plan to protect humanity against another pandemic like COVID-19.
Celebrities, including David Walliams, Jim Broadbent, Russel Tovey, Nicola Roberts and Asa Butterfield, come together to encourage people to get COVID-19 vaccines.
New evidence continues to show vaccination is highly effective in protecting against death and hospitalisation from coronavirus (COVID-19).
Leading scientists at the independent Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) have confirmed that albumin, a critically important medicine for the NHS, can now be safely derived from UK plasma donors.
At a virtual event, the UK urged United Nations members to protect vital immunisation programmes whilst also supporting the search for a coronavirus vaccine.
A summary of recent letters, medicine recalls and notifications sent to healthcare professionals.
Those used in the UK as effective at preventing symptomatic disease in the majority of people with underlying health conditions as the rest of the population.
The government has announced that Madelaine McTernan CB has been appointed as head of the newly formed HRT taskforce to address issues in the supply chain.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care shares thoughts on vaccines, testing and the R number.
A summary of Medical Device Alerts recently issued by the MHRA.
Call for evidence launched to discover if and how medical devices and technologies may be exacerbating inequalities in healthcare.
New study by PHE shows for the first time that 2 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective against the B.1.617.2 variant first identified in India.
A summary of letters and drug alerts recently sent to healthcare professionals.
The decision to grant approval for this treatment was endorsed by the government’s independent expert scientific advisory body, the Commission on Human Medicines, after carefully reviewing the evidence.
New centres will provide quicker diagnoses to patients – a step forward in the government’s plan to roll out 160 centres by 2025.
Over one million boosters given in last 3 days as people urged to get vital top-up to their immunity.
This is a new regular bulletin from Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to inform health and care professionals of new or ongoing safety issues with medical devices. It is aimed at all parts of the health and care...
Thousands more vulnerable people are eligible to receive the UK’s second antiviral Paxlovid, which has been added to the PANORAMIC national study.
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