Health leaders in Humber and North Yorkshire are backing a major new campaign to remind parents and carers of the risk of their children missing out on protection against serious diseases – with an urgent call to action to catch up on missed vaccinations. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) campaign has released a powerful … Read more
Agencies from across York and North Yorkshire – including NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board – have come together to publish a Serious Violence Response Strategy (SVRS), assessing the current state of serious violence across our region and assigning key priorities to help combat it. The Serious Violence Duty (SVD) introduced by the Home Office … Read more
Health leaders say they are concerned that not enough people are vaccinated against measles – and are urging people to come forward. The Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) jab, is delivered in two doses, the first given at 12 months, and the second at about three years and four months, before children start school. However, around … Read more
Stopping smoking is often referred to as ‘giving up’. But this New Year, Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership wants people to focus on the gains. By swapping cigarettes to safer forms of nicotine, such as patches, gum or a vape it says people can save hundreds of pounds, with significant improvements to … Read more
This new year, the local NHS is encouraging people to get the help they need by using the NHS 111 service. Winter is the busiest period for the NHS, with increases in the number of people needing help across all services. Across Humber and North Yorkshire, accident and emergency departments in the region’s hospitals have … Read more
The city of York is set to experience its first multicultural health festival later this month with the York Health Mela. The brand-new festival, which aims to address health inequalities in marginalised communities, will take place on Sunday 24 September at the York Art Gallery in Museum Gardens. The word mela means ‘meeting’ or ‘gathering’ … Read more
A major study says the NHS in England would save more than £500 million a year if half of England’s adult smokers switched from cigarettes to vapes. In Humber and North Yorkshire it’s estimated around £82 million a year is spent by the NHS on treating smoking-related illness, with an additional £43.6 million in social … Read more
In collaboration with local partners, NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) hosted the second annual Care Provider Olympics this summer. The event, which took place across North Yorkshire and York, was a celebration of physical activity and health over six weeks in June and July, with 800 people from 32 care providers … Read more
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