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If you’ve been offered the vaccine, you now have the option to have it at the hospital on Friday, Saturday and Sundays.

The Care Quality Commission published a report following a recent unannounced visit to the emergency department at Medway Maritime Hospital. Although they found many positives, they’ve asked the hospital to make a number of immediate changes.

Acting on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), the four UK chief medical officers announced in December, that the second doses of covid vaccines should now be given at 12 weeks rather than initial 3-4 weeks.

We want to make sure you hear about everything important that is happening around Medway – as its happening - that could affect your health and wellbeing.

All adults with learning disabilities in Medway are now being offered the vaccine.

We hear from working parents about how lockdown is affecting them.

If you are over 70 years old and have not yet had your Coronavirus vaccine, you are being asked to contact the NHS to get booked in.

So many of you have been in touch to share your experience of being vaccinated, or to ask questions about the vaccine programme.

We asked the Head of the Vaccine Programme all your questions, and more.

Do you have ideas about what could be improved about the nursing care that you receive at home? Your questions could help inform what researchers should focus on.

How does it feel when you get your vaccine call up? This week we chatted with Lesley whose had her first Covid vaccine.

Unsurprisingly we've had lots of calls and emails about the Coronavirus vaccine in recent weeks. We've been able to help some frontline workers get access to their vaccine.

Testing is now available for all us living and working in Medway if you don't have any Covid symptoms. One in three of us will have Covid with no symptoms so it's really important to get tested regularly to reduce the spread of the virus