Boris Johnson has warned that the reduction in coronavirus infections, hospitalisations and deaths "has not been achieved" by the rollout of COVID vaccines.
The prime minister, speaking the day after the latest easing of lockdown restrictions, instead said it was the national shutdown that had been "overwhelmingly important" in driving...
Portland Council and other Councils in Dorset have done this too. We now trust that W&P's reps on Dorset's Health Scrutiny Committee (Cllr Kevin Brookes and Cllr Alison Reed) will use their votes next week to help safeguard health services for Weymouth and Portland, and vote 'Yes' for Referral.
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Do you know what “leaky vaccines” are? There’s a good chance you don’t because discussion about them has been mostly shunted to the fringes of the web, with videos on the subject even excised from Youtube. The subject is treated as though it is something only tinfoil hat-wearing loons...
Managed by Encore Care Homes, Great Oaks’ home administrator, Sarah Sims, has taken part in the Jurassic Coast Mighty Hike to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Great Oaks, the residential, nursing and dementia care home in Bournemouth, held a coffee morning to help raise funds for Sarah’s 22-mile trek...
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with relevant dashcam footage to come forward as they investigate a serious injury road traffic collision in Corfe Mullen.
Dorset Police received a report at 4.22pm on Sunday 17 March 2024 of a collision on the B3074 Blandford Road, near to the junction...
Dorset Mind are pleased to announce a new ambassador – Bournemouth Rugby Club’s linchpin forward Toby Keneally. This timely announcement comes towards the end of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, during which the charity has been working hard to reduce the stigma around mental health.
Toby will complete a...
Our campaign group are very upset this morning after coming across the minutes from the health scrutiny committee meeting!
This suggests Once again we have been led down the wrong path by the CCG.
The minutes suggest they are going to retake the decision.
They've abandoned the idea of us merging with...
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2019, Dorset psychologist Dr Andrew Mayers, Principal Academic in psychology at Bournemouth University is running an event at Bournemouth Rail Station with South Western Railway. The awareness week runs from May 13th, with station event taking place on Tuesday 14th. Several leading mental...
Section A - Having Or Not Having The Vaccine - The Facts and Risks
In the UK, before the vaccine, if you got infected, you had a 1 in 10 chance of being hospitalised. With the vaccine, it’s a 1 in 45 chance. Before the vaccine, you had a 1...
Investigators are exploring a possible link between dogs and the recent spike in cases of sudden onset hepatitis in UK children.
More than 160 cases have been recorded in the current outbreak but the reason for the increase is unclear.Family questionnaires have shown "relatively high numbers of dog-owning families or...
