Volunteers from across the Midlands are being asked to sign up to the latest COVID-19 vaccine study to be rolled out across the UK.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) will run the study at Cheadle Hospital.
This is a research trial involving participants aged 12-17 years and builds on a trial of Valneva’s COVID-19 vaccine for adults, which MPFT has been running at Cheadle Hospital since the spring of 2021 and is nearing completion.
A pioneering new partnership service offering digital emotional health and wellbeing support to children and young people experiencing anxiety, depression and other mental health issues has won the prestigious NHS Procurement Transformation Award at the NHS in the Midlands Excellence in Supply Awards.
Do you have children aged 14-19? If so, our new careers webinars from the Integrated Care System (ICS) People Team may be of interest. The Integrated Care System for Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin have partnered with Springpod to host live events for students aged 14-19.
MPFT Director of People Alex Brett and Chief Digital Information Officer Chris Ibell have been appointed to the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board
Illustrator Charlotte Tisdale has created a new design on the large fence that surrounds MOD unit on Brocton ward. Charlotte worked with staff and inpatients to come up with a design for the MOD garden fence.
Dr Zoe Paskins, Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) and Reader in Rheumatology at Keele University has led on a research study which has found that steroid injections can provide an effective means of treating patients with arthritis in their hip.