Overview

This weekly pack has been produced for community engagement partners to share key messages over the to help people protect themselves against COVID-19.

The pack includes:

• A review of current data and intelligence to inform the key focus for communications and community engagement.
• News release: Businesses urged to review risk assessments
• Communications resources: shareable content e.g. social media messages, news articles and newsletter content

Community engagement partners are encouraged to use and adapt the contents of this pack across your communication channels to your audiences. This will ensure important messages can reach or be amplified to as many local groups and individuals as possible. To ensure a coordinated flow of information, to enable the recording of reach, and early identification of any issues, feedback is welcomed. Partners can email michellegravatt@warwickshire.gov.uk or make a report at the engagement meeting to advise what action has been taken, the groups reached, how well the information been received, or to make requests or suggestions for alternate formats or messaging.

Local COVID-19 dashboard

For the latest COVID-19 positive cases across Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire, click here. You can also view data by each district and borough.

In focus

• Mental health information and services – separate pack attached to email
• NHS vaccine update and links to materials
• Stay at home guidance
• Guidance on testing
• Self-isolation and support available

NHS vaccine 

Update on the current position – sent on 25^th January

To date 20 local vaccination centres have opened and official figures released week show that 64,000 vaccinations have been delivered in seven weeks.  Today (25^th January) will see the opening to patients of the Large Vaccination Centre at Stoneleigh NAEC. Patients who are 70 and over will be invited to this site, please note that this is an option, like the offer to have a vaccination at Millennium Point in Birmingham – this is a choice and people can wait to be called for a vaccination more locally.

Our roving teams have now vaccinated care home residents and their efforts will now turn to vaccinating patients who are housebound. These patients will be contacted by their GP surgery or by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust.

Hospital Hubs at University Hospital, Coventry, George Eliot Hospital and Warwick Hospital are continuing at pace to vaccine their staff as well as health and social care from throughout Coventry and Warwickshire.

Finally, as stakeholders you have an important role to play in helping this the vaccination programme, please encourage people not to attend or to contact a vaccination centre without an invitation. Our teams are working hard to deliver the biggest vaccination programme in history, and your help and support will be invaluable especially as it gathers pace.

COVID-19 vaccination guides for older adults are available in a range of languages, including Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Nepali, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog and Turkish.

Below is a British Islamic Medical Association video.

Please click on the Twitter link below.

Trouble accessing NHS number for vaccine bookings

There is a new Find your NHS number service available on the NHS website, which can help people when booking their vaccine, if they do not know their NHS number.
It requires users to enter their name, DOB and Post Code to receive a copy of their NHS number, the number is then sent by text.

Topic – Lockdown – stay at home

Topic – Lockdown – stay at home

Topic – Lockdown – stay at home

Topic – Lockdown – stay at home – 1 in 3

Topic – Symptoms and testing

Topic – Symptoms, testing and isolation

• High temperature or
• New, continuous cough or
• Loss of sense of smell or taste

Topic – When to isolate

Topic – Isolation – close contact

Topic – Isolation Support

Topic – Isolation – support

Topic – Isolation Support

Topic – CEV

Topic – CEV

Topic – Stay safe – face covering