Covid-19 vaccines update
Vaccinations begin for 45-49 year olds
This week the Government announced that the next phase of the vaccination programme is beginning, with people aged 45-49 now eligible for the vaccine. GP services are starting to invite people and appointments at large vaccination centres and pharmacies have seen a surge in bookings.
Second doses ramping up
We are now more than four months into the Covid-19 vaccination programme and the number of people getting the extra protection of a second dose is increasing significantly. Over 213,000 people have now had two doses, including 64% of frontline health staff.
Booking service reopens for health staff
From 19th April the national booking service will reopen for frontline health and social care staff to book appointments. You will be able to tick a box to confirm you are eligible and will then need to bring ID to your appointment. Full details will be on the national booking service from next week.
You can read more about these stories in our weekly vaccines update
From 19th April the national booking service will reopen for frontline health and social care staff to book appointments. You will be able to tick a box to confirm you are eligible and will then need to bring ID to your appointment. Full details will be on the national booking service from next week.
You can read more about these stories in our weekly vaccines update
New maternal mental health service trial
‘Thrive - Psychological Support for Birth Trauma and Loss’ is running throughout 2021 in east Kent, as a partnership between the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
Thrive has been built and shaped with input from women who have lived through birth trauma and birth loss themselves. One of them is Charlotte, who suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after the birth of her first child in 2018.
You can find out more about her experience, and how the Thrive service is already helping local women like her on our website
Online mental health and wellbeing support
Anyone aged 10 to 25 (up to 26th birthday) can log on to www.kooth.com and begin accessing free counselling, advice and wellbeing support.
Kooth provides a safe, secure means of accessing help via the internet including:
• Out-of-hours availability with counsellors available from 12 noon to 10:00pm on weekdays and 6:00pm to 10:00pm at weekends, every day of the year on a drop-in basis
• Online counselling from a professional team of qualified counsellors
• Discussion boards, which are all pre-moderated, allowing young people to access peer-to-peer support
• An online magazine full of moderated articles
Transforming acute adult mental health services
Across Kent and Medway commissioners and providers are working together to transform acute mental health services for adults, so that the right support is available for those who need it.
If you, a carer or family member or loved one has needed to seek support, or help for a severe acute mental health problem, we would really like to hear about your/their experience, and what you would like from future mental health services in Kent and Medway.
We’d be grateful if you would complete this complete this survey to let us know your thoughts. Please complete it by 7th May 2021.
If you have any questions or need any further information, please contact kmpt.engagement@nhs.net
You can find out more about our current engagement activities on our website
Help develop NHS Talking Therapies
Engaging Kent CIC in partnership with NHS Kent and Medway CCG is holding two engagement events to hear people's views about the development of IAPT (NHS Talking Therapies) for Kent and Medway from 2022.
The two events will be held on Zoom on Thursday 29th April 2021 starting at 10:00am and 1:00pm. Both events will have the same content and last for one hour and forty-five minutes.
You can register your interest by completing a Google form https://forms.gle/79Q64gqEea1fsrLp7
Registration will close at midnight Monday 26th April 2021.
Meeting details will be sent on Tuesday 27th April 2021.
If you have any questions about the events or are unable to use this form, please email the Kent and Medway CCG Adult Mental Health Team using KMCCG.mentalhealth@nhs.net
Read the full bulletin at >> https://bit.ly/3mVXx9X
Kooth, an online mental health and wellbeing service for young people, is now available to all 10 to 25-year-olds across Kent and Medway.
Anyone aged 10 to 25 (up to 26th birthday) can log on to www.kooth.com and begin accessing free counselling, advice and wellbeing support.
Kooth provides a safe, secure means of accessing help via the internet including:
• Out-of-hours availability with counsellors available from 12 noon to 10:00pm on weekdays and 6:00pm to 10:00pm at weekends, every day of the year on a drop-in basis
• Online counselling from a professional team of qualified counsellors
• Discussion boards, which are all pre-moderated, allowing young people to access peer-to-peer support
• An online magazine full of moderated articles
No referral is required. Young people can register at www.kooth.com
Transforming acute adult mental health services
Across Kent and Medway commissioners and providers are working together to transform acute mental health services for adults, so that the right support is available for those who need it.
If you, a carer or family member or loved one has needed to seek support, or help for a severe acute mental health problem, we would really like to hear about your/their experience, and what you would like from future mental health services in Kent and Medway.
We’d be grateful if you would complete this complete this survey to let us know your thoughts. Please complete it by 7th May 2021.
If you have any questions or need any further information, please contact kmpt.engagement@nhs.net
You can find out more about our current engagement activities on our website
Help develop NHS Talking Therapies
Engaging Kent CIC in partnership with NHS Kent and Medway CCG is holding two engagement events to hear people's views about the development of IAPT (NHS Talking Therapies) for Kent and Medway from 2022.
The two events will be held on Zoom on Thursday 29th April 2021 starting at 10:00am and 1:00pm. Both events will have the same content and last for one hour and forty-five minutes.
You can register your interest by completing a Google form https://forms.gle/79Q64gqEea1fsrLp7
Registration will close at midnight Monday 26th April 2021.
Meeting details will be sent on Tuesday 27th April 2021.
If you have any questions about the events or are unable to use this form, please email the Kent and Medway CCG Adult Mental Health Team using KMCCG.mentalhealth@nhs.net
Read the full bulletin at >> https://bit.ly/3mVXx9X
NHS Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group
