A new COVID-19 testing site for residents with no symptoms is opening on Wednesday 6 January at Splash in Stockton and tests must be booked in advance.
The national Covid-19 vaccination programme has now started, with a hospital in Middlesbrough leading the way for Teesside on the fight against the coronavirus.
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council (SBC) and Healthwatch Stockton-on-Tees have launched a dementia tool kit which has been welcomed by care homes across the Borough of Stockton.
Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board (TSAB) would like to encourage organisations and community groups to become involved in National Safeguarding Adults Week from 16-22 November 2020.
Healthwatch Stockton-on-Tees has been nominated for a prestigious national award which has helped to improve services for older people residing in residential and nursing homes across the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees.
The Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board (TSAB) is distributing their annual surveys to provide service users, professionals and the public with the opportunity to have their say and inform the Board’s future priorities for safeguarding.across theTees.
The consultation is now open on the draft supporting adult carers quality standard and comments are welcomed from stakeholders, non-registered organisations and individuals.
Healthwatch Stockton-on-Tees are the independent champion for people using local health and social care services, with its own legal powers and setting its own work programme to reflect the concerns of the local community.
Since March 2020, we have all been living through some of the most difficult times any of us will have ever experienced. In order to meet the sudden need for more beds, the NHS had to change the way it discharged people from hospital.