News and reports

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is advising that all 16 and 17 year olds receive their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Read more about the August 2021 Board meeting in public. This time our Board Members discussed the recruitment efforts and the figures from our recent contract monitoring return to commissioners.

In a recent letter to midwives, obstetricians and GPs, Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, Chief Midwife, reminds all healthcare professionals that ‘they have a responsibility to proactively encourage pregnant women to get vaccinated.’

Our report detailing what people told us about the COVID-19 vaccines has been published and contains the views of more than 1,800 Hertfordshire residents. Find out what people told us.

The UK's COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been the most significant public health exercise in recent history. While the rollout has been an incredible achievement, we wanted to understand people's motivations to either receive or refuse the vaccine.

Every year our AGM is an opportunity to reflect and celebrate our achievements over the past year.

Have you had to self-isolate in the last six months? Hertfordshire County Council is carrying out a survey to understand the challenges and barriers people face when required to self-isolate.

Welwyn Garden City’s Urgent Care Centre (UCC) is to close overnight, due to very low numbers of patients using its services at night for a number of years.

Official message from NHS England - Anyone using or visiting healthcare settings must continue to wear a face covering and stick to social distancing rules.

Read about our efforts during the past year to ensure the patient voice was heard amid the Covid-19 pandemic and improvements made to Hertfordshire services as a result.

Saturday 26th June 2021 was Armed Forces Day and an ideal occasion to look at what has been achieved since we published our Veterans Healthcare Access report last March.

Read more about our 2021 AGM, where the members approved the accounts, we took a moment of pause to reflect on the past year - and we heard from guest speaker Jim McManus, Director of Public Health for Hertfordshire.