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The Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System is today pleased therefore to announce that, following a national recruitment process that Danielle Oum has been appointed as the new ICS independent chair, starting from Monday 18th October.

Coventry and Warwickshire healthcare leaders having been working in collaboration with the health and social care partners to get ready to deliver COVID vaccines to 12- to 15-year-olds and COVID boosters as part of the government winter plans. 

Our health and care services across Coventry and Warwickshire are exceptionally busy at the moment, with some days this week seeing tremendous peaks in demand for our ambulances and accident and emergency departments.

Transport to COVID-19 vaccination appointments has been arranged with the volunteer transport providers that cover Warwickshire.

The ICS is looking for an inspirational Chair, who, alongside colleagues across the partnership organisations, can lead Coventry and Warwickshire in the next stage of our transformation.

Does your organisation offer opportunities for people if they are feeling lonely or isolated? Warwickshire County Council would like to hear your views.

Coventry and Warwickshire Health and Care Partnership is pleased to announce its success in securing funding of £11.9 million over three years from NHS England / NHS Improvement. 

An ambitious programme to transform special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support services across Warwickshire is moving forward.

Local NHS and public health leaders are reminding everyone aged 18 and over where they can get their Covid vaccinations in the run up to 19th July.

Health leaders in Coventry and Warwickshire have sent an open letter to residents, calling on them to be careful when COVID restrictions ease on Monday (19 July).

Past and current smokers in Coventry and Rugby are being invited to a NHS lung health check in a drive to improve earlier diagnosis of lung cancer and save more lives. 

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will be visiting Warwickshire next week.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) is delighted to have been awarded two Health Service Journal (HSJ) Partnership Awards 2021. 

Local health and care leaders are asking people across Coventry and Warwickshire to roll up at a pop-up vaccination clinic and roll up their sleeves to get their vital first or second doses of the vaccine this weekend.

Local health and care leaders are joining the rest of England in celebrating the success of delivering Covid vaccinations by supporting the national, Big Weekend Walk-in.

A magnificent milestone in the local vaccination programme has been reached with the millionth dose being given in Rugby.

When Paul Roebuck was diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2017 he felt his world had collapsed but four years on, he has not only recovered his speech but now teaches at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

Patients are set to benefit as a new £1 million purpose built Haematology and Oncology unit has opened its doors at the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby.

Our partner Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is proud to support Dementia Action Week, taking place between 17 – 23 May.

NHS teams across Coventry and Warwickshire will trail new ways of working to help develop a blueprint for restoring routine NHS care after the pandemic, as part of a new plan unveiled today.