Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross has performed another partygate u-turn by claiming Boris Johnson will have to quit after the war is over in Ukraine.
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A rise in a number of viruses has been listed as an emerging threat to public health in Salford and Greater Manchester as fewer parents are choosing to vaccinate their children. Polio, measles, hepatitis, flu and meningitis - as well as other viruses we cannot vaccinate against, such as scarlet fever - are all rising, the Health and Wellbeing Board was told on Tuesday May 10.
While a number of these recognised threats to health are being handled on a national scale by the NHS, the Salford Health Protection Board are looking at ways they can better prevent outbreaks by working with local partners. Deputy director of public health for Salford, Gillian Mclauchlan, explained that the public health team are in communication with the University of Salford and the colleges in the city, where meningitis is most likely to spread, in order to promote vaccination.
“Covid testing has more or less ceased. We have developed an early warning system. That is updated on a weekly basis and we are currently measuring outbreaks in certain settings.”,” Ms Mclauchlan told the board.
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The Immunisation Improvement Group is also looking to promote uptake in the area for five to 11-year-olds. Communications have also been made with primary care providers such as GP practices to help build up community vaccination clinics.
Vaccination uptake is a big topic for public health in Salford at the moment with many seeming less keen to get preventative jabs post-pandemic.
Deputy mayor John Merry believes more needs to be done to improve the knowledge in the community around vaccination. His concern was that the message over
Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross has performed another partygate u-turn by claiming Boris Johnson will have to quit after the war is over in Ukraine.
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