Covid-19 vaccine and test and trace scams warning to York residents RESIDENTS in York are being warned about a spate of scams relating to Covid-19. People have reported receiving fake mobile texts, calls or emails offering vaccine appointments or claim to be about Test and Trace. In most cases the texts and emails contain a link that asks for payment or further personal details. City of York Council say people are being invited to be vaccinated when it’s their turn. They will be invited by the NHS, their local GP practice, or in York by Nimbuscare, a local consortium of 11 GP practices.
THE University of Sunderland is set to build a multi-million pound facility to help train the medical professionals of tomorrow using human tissue. Sunderland City Council has granted planning permission for a new ‘cadaveric centre’ at the university’s city campus and work is expected to start in around six weeks. When completed, the centre will be key to the newly-established School of Medicine, provide training for other students within the Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing and offer vital facilities and benefits to surgeons and surgical trainees in the region. The latest development comes after the university opened its first School of Medicine in September 2018.
Joyce Hayton was among the first to get the vaccine PEOPLE living in Selby district have started to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Posterngate Surgery and Tadcaster Health Centre will both be acting as a ‘primary care hubs’ on behalf of the Selby Town and Tadcaster and Rural Selby Primary Care Networks (PCNs). Eligible patients currently aged over 84 in the area who are most at risk from serious harm of COVID-19 have started to receive the much awaited vaccine. The priority groups are in line with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) in order to protect the most vulnerable.
Andrew Proctor, chair of the Norfolk Covid-19 Engagement Board and leader of Norfolk County Council, aid: “I speak for myself and all the other Norfolk leaders on the Engagement Board in saying there is no doubt that 2020 has been a really difficult year but we can look to 2021 with hope.
Andrew Proctor, leader of Norfolk County Council. Pic: Neil Perry
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“With the announcement of a second vaccine being approved and vaccination programmes already underway in Norfolk, there is much to be optimistic about.
“But we must not be complacent, we are not out of the woods yet.
Andrew Proctor, chair of the Norfolk Covid-19 Engagement Board and leader of Norfolk County Council, aid: “I speak for myself and all the other Norfolk leaders on the Engagement Board in saying there is no doubt that 2020 has been a really difficult year but we can look to 2021 with hope.
Andrew Proctor, leader of Norfolk County Council. Pic: Neil Perry
- Credit: Archant
“With the announcement of a second vaccine being approved and vaccination programmes already underway in Norfolk, there is much to be optimistic about.
“But we must not be complacent, we are not out of the woods yet.