Keele University and Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) are pleased to have appointed Professor Toby Helliwell as a new Chair of General Practice.

MPFT's St George’s Hospital in Stafford has today (9 January) launched as a Covid-19 vaccination hub.

Residents at two care homes in Stoke-on-Trent have become among the first in the country to be vaccinated against COVID-19

School Nursing and Health Visiting services supporting children, young people and their families in Stoke-on-Trent are to continue to be provided by MPFT until March 2021 following an agreement to continue to work together with the City Council.

Research teams from Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust have been recognised for their collaborative work on a national Covid-19 study and West Midlands commercial COVID vaccine study - NOVOVAX.

The innovative online Coping with Winter workshop, developed by the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Wellbeing Service (IAPT) is offering support to people in Staffordshire to manage mental health difficulties over the winter period.

Innovative technology is being installed on mental health wards at Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) as part of a programme to continuously improve patient safety.

MPFT is working with University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) to provide a new Community Heart Failure Service for East Staffordshire, that has begun taking referrals

The NHS will begin vaccinating patients against coronavirus at dozens of hospital hubs from this week at the start of the biggest immunisation programme in history.