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NHS Borders’ school vaccination programmes are “some of the best in the country”, according to the health board.

NHS Borders has encouraged people to keep following lockdown rules amid signs that coronavirus is successfully being suppressed.

Borders Immunisation programmes are some of the best in the country The latest statistics published by the NHS reveal that routine immunisation programmes in the Borders are some of the best in the country. Around 97% of Borders children aged between four and six have received their MMR and 4 in 1 vaccinations protecting them against infections such as measles, mumps and tetanus. Tim Patterson, Director of Public Health at NHS Borders, said: “Our immunisation programmes for children and young people in the Borders have been very successful thanks to our dedicated Immunisation Team...

OMERS Private Equity’s head of health-care investing to depart Tim Patterson Tim Patterson, senior managing director and head of health-care investing at OMERS Private Equity, is leaving at the end of the month. OMERS Private Equity is the private equity investment arm of the C$109 billion ($85.6 billion) Ontario Municipal Employees' Retirement System, Toronto. Mr. Patterson "has made the personal decision to leave OMERS at the end of January," after having joined the private equity team in 2010, wrote Michael Graham, global head of OMERS Private Equity, in an internal memo obtained by Pen...

Residents from West Linton are being called on to book a Covid-19 test, even if they are not showing symptoms of the virus. NHS Borders has decided to roll out the Covid-19 community testing programme further, to include anyone living or working in West Linton and surrounding areas. It comes after a spike in cases in the region over the past weeks and evidence that it is spreading within these local communities. Residents in Hawick have also been invited to book a test. Testing for West Linton will be available over the next fortnight from the Mobile Testing Unit located at the Grah...