Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System

NHS Norfolk and Waveney has launched a public consultation to gain people’s views on a proposal about the future of Toftwood Medical Centre.  The consultation will run from today, Thursday 10 October, to Thursday 21 November 2024, with patie...

A new campaign is calling on Lowestoft people to get their blood pressure checked so they can carry on enjoying those precious moments with friends and family for as long as possible. An estimated 1 in 4 adults in the UK have high blood pressure,...

What are pharmaceutical services? In Norfolk, pharmaceutical services are provided from community pharmacies, also referred to as chemist, and includes those you may see in the local supermarket, internet pharmacies, and providers of specialist ...

Would you like a career in healthcare transforming people’s lives? Come along to the Speech and Language Therapy careers events in October to find out more. Speech and Language Therapists have a wide variety of career choices and options to sp...

In October, we celebrate Black History Month: From the nurses who came from the Caribbean to help set up the NHS, to their descendants, the scientists, mathematicians, allied health professionals and leaders whose action and ideas help sha...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month which is an annual campaign raising awareness around screening, treatment, and prevention of breast cancer. And every October, people all over the world show their support for those affected. Breast screen...

Stoptober is back, calling on smokers in England to join the 2.5 million others who havemade a quit attempt with the campaign previously. Over 5 million adults in England still smoke. Smoking causes 64,000 deaths a year,making it the biggest caus...

Welcome to my belated September blog. This month I focus on leadership and recent changes at the ICB and in the system, the ICB restructure, primary care collective action and clinical transformation. Leadership Updates We have some exciting c...

Two hospitals in Norfolk and Waveney have received approval to move forward as part of the New Hospital Programme (NHP). The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Trust and the James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been grant...

Over 140,000 parents and carers of 2–3-year-olds across East Anglia are being urged to book their children in for a flu vaccine at their GP Practice from next week, as the NHS ramps up its national preparations for winter. The NHS sent invitation...

Following a national competitive expression of interest process, Norfolk has been selected alongside two other local authorities by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to test the digital NHS Health Check in the next stage of the governm...

People in Norfolk and Waveney experiencing anxiety and depression will benefit from an enhanced new NHS Talking Therapies service, which launches on Monday 2 September 2024. Delivered as a partnership between Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Tr...