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James and Millie Hall have sent a Christmas drawing to St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust for patients this Christmas (Image: St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust)
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Rowan Pritchard-Jones, medical director for St Helens and Knowsley Hospital Trust ST HELENS and Knowsley Hospital Trust’s medical director has urged the public to take “every precaution” against Covid-19 this Christmas, as infection rates begin to surge across the region. The government has already scaled back plans to allow households to form ‘Christmas bubbles’, allowing it only on Christmas Day itself. This has been scrapped altogether in London and large parts of the South East, which have been placed under new Tier 4 restrictions following a surge in cases driven by a new, more infectious, variant of Covid-19 With infection rates rising across the region, NHS bosses are urging people to remain vigilant against the current threat, over the Christmas period.
Dr Hilary Flett (right) clinical lead for the borough’s Covid-19 vaccination roll-out and Bill Adair, the first person in St Helens to receive the Pfizer jab MORE than 1,000 people in St Helens have been vaccinated against Covid-19, as the borough’s mass immunisation programme kicked into gear. St Helens CCG, working with local GP practices, started to roll out the Pfizer jab to patients over the age of 80 on Wednesday. Patients were invited by their GPs to Saints’ Totally Wicked Stadium, the first community vaccination centre to open in Cheshire and Merseyside. St Helens CCG has confirmed that on Wednesday, 355 doses of the Pfizer jab were administered, followed by 295 on Thursday and 354 on Friday.
Whiston Hospital updates rules for pregnant woman s birth partners attending appointments PREGNANT women can have one person with them at all appointments and during labour at St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals from Monday, December 21. Hospital trusts were this week ordered by the NHS to review their current coronavirus rules and allow pregnant women to have a birth partner present throughout appointments, labour and birth. The new guidance for Whiston and St Helens Hospitals comes after outrage nationally that some women in England were being forced to go through labour alone, and hear devastating news about miscarriages without the support of their birth partners.
Former Saints star becomes first person in St Helens to have Covid vaccine FORMER Saints player Bill Adair became the first person in St Helens to receive Covid-19 jab, as GPs begin a massive vaccination programme. St Helens CCG working with local GP practices have today started to roll out the Covid-19 vaccine to St Helens patients in a first positive step towards normality for the borough’s communities. Bill, who turned 90 in May this year, received a last-minute call last night to ask if he would like to do the honour of becoming the first patient in St Helens to take the Pfizer jab.