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Covid Testing & Vaccination Update
Equal Access to Vaccinations
* Some helpful resources on engaging with South Asian people on COVID-19 are available via the South Asian Health Foundation.
* Information about COVID-19 Vaccine scams in South Asian languages.
* There is plenty of discussion about tackling health inequalities being made worse by the pandemic – see here for blog on vaccine uptake in Black communities.
* Surrey is conducting several initiatives to reduce health inequalities relating to the pandemic and we will ...
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Covid Testing & Vaccination Update
Latest information on Covid tests and vaccinations
Testing
Symptom-free Testing
Online booking for rapid tests is now available for people who don’t have symptoms in Woking, Epsom and Ewell, and Spelthorne, and participating pharmacies across Surrey.
This targeted local community testing is for people who don’t have symptoms, live or work in Surrey, can’t work from home and haven’t already been offered a test through work.
Businesses with 50+ employees who cannot work from home ...
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Postal voting for 2021 local elections
Concerned about voting before the pandemic is over? Then why not go postal.
The government has announced that the 2021 local elections will go ahead, as scheduled, on Thursday 6th May. This year they will be more involved than usual, encompassing elections for:-
Elmbridge Borough Council (postponed from 2020)
Surrey County Council
Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner
By early May the government projects that all over 50s will have been offered at least one Covid vaccination. B...
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Developers against housing proposal
Even property developers are against the Government's Housing Consultation proposal to make it easier for commercial properties to be converted to residential use. See The Times article below.
Click here for the Residents' Association response to the consultation.
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RA's response to High St threat
Below is the TD & WG Residents' Association response, opposing the Housing Consultation proposal which would allow developers a free hand to convert High Street shops and offices to housing. It was also copied to our MP, Dominic Raab.
Subject: Supporting housing delivery and public service infrastructureDate: 26/01/2021, 14:58To: PublicServiceInfrastructure&PermittedDevelopmentConsultation@communities.gov.uk
I write as Chairman of the...
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Elmbridge Covid Champions update
Elmbridge COVID Champions Briefing
(week commencing 25 January 2021)
Local updates
Elmbridge now has the 2nd lowest case rates in Surrey and case numbers are much lower than the Surrey average – numbers are falling across Surrey’s 11 boroughs (last week Elmbridge had the 2nd lowest rates).
Surrey case rates are now below the national average but hospital beds are still very limited – when case numbers fall, there is usually a delay of about two weeks before admission rates stop rising.
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Surrey Police burglaries warning
A warning from Surrey Police Borough Commander, Bert Dean :
In Elmbridge we have seen a few burglaries in the past couple of days at houses where the owners are actually residing in Care Homes, in hospital or being cared for away from home. It may be circumstantial as the houses look unoccupied, but we would want our communities to be informed.
We are appealing to friends, relatives or neighbours where they know someone who is living away at this moment to look out for their prope...
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Proposed law change threatens High Streets
The Government's proposed legislation change will make it easier for developers to convert High Street shops and offices to housing.
The Government is currently conducting a Consultation, innocently titled, Supporting housing delivery and public service infrastructure. It proposes a change in legislation … to introduce a new national Permitted Development right for the change of use from the new Commercial, Business and Service use class to residential use. If brought into law, this...
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Covid Vaccination Updates
Updates on the Covid Vaccination Programme in Surrey
For recent information on Covid vaccinations, click here to go to the Surrey Heartlands CCG website.
Additional information, and further updates, can be accessed from their home page at:
https://www.surreyheartlandsccg.nhs.uk/
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Covid-19 vaccination update
Covid-19 Vaccination Update
If you are concerned that you have not yet been invited to receive your Covid vaccination, Surrey Heartlands Clinical Commissioning Group has released the following information.
4 January 2021
Across Surrey Heartlands we are continuing to roll-out our Covid-19 vaccination programme, with more local vaccination services being set up across the area.
As per the JCVI guidance, we are currently vaccinating those in the top two priority cohorts; i.e. those who are ov...
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Covid Vaccination Scam
Covid Vaccination Scam
Surrey Police have issued the following notice:
There have been reports of a new scam where a person receives a text saying they need to book a vaccination appointment and it takes them to a fake NHS form which then asks for their bank details to prove their identity.
The NHS will never ask for people's banking information.
There is a leaflet about the texting scam, which can be downloaded here:
https://cfa.nhs.uk/resources/do...
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