{"id":275973,"date":"2025-11-21T19:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275973\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:48:13","slug":"nhs-vaccination-bus-to-visit-wolverhampton-and-walsall-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275973\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS vaccination bus to visit Wolverhampton and Walsall hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The clinics will be held on:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The vaccination bus will be outside the pathology department at the front of the hospital at Walsall Manor Hospital and outside the emergency department at New Cross Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sally Roberts, chief nursing officer and deputy chief executive officer for the NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board, said: &#8220;As part of our efforts to protect staff, patients and residents, we are making getting vaccinated as accessible as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This clinic is designed to offer a welcoming, convenient space where eligible people can get vaccinated against flu and COVID-19 to protect themselves and their loved ones this winter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caroline Whyte, deputy chief nursing officer at The Royal Wolverhampton and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trusts, said: &#8220;For lots of different reasons, we recognise it may not always be easy for people to get to a GP practice or pharmacy for their vaccination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To make sure they don&#8217;t miss out, this roving vehicle will bring the flu and COVID vaccines to our two main hospital sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Getting the vaccine means milder symptoms and a quicker recovery if you catch the COVID or flu virus, so I would urge every Black Country resident who is eligible to make sure they have it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clinics will be held on: The vaccination bus will be outside the pathology department at the front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-275973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}