Stay well and get jabs at mobile clinics, NHS says

Mobile vaccination clinics are being sent to supermarkets in Wolverhampton and New Cross Hospital as people are encouraged to take up jabs and stay well.

The NHS said as winter continued and viruses circulated, mobile clinics could be found across the Black Country offering a range of essential vaccines, with no appointment needed.

In Wolverhampton, there will be a mobile clinic at Asda in Heath Town, on Monday from 10:00 to 14:00 GMT.

The walk-in clinics are offering protection to different groups against flu, measles, mumps and rubella, whooping cough, Covid and the respiratory virus RSV, depending on who is eligible for which jab.

Clinics have been set up in Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall throughout January, with dates listed on the NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board (ICB) website:

Sandwell

• Thursday 8 January, 10:00 to 15:00, 26 Market Place, Clock Tower, Wednesbury
• Wednesday 14 January, 10:00 to 15:00, 46 New Square, West Bromwich
• Friday 23 January, 12:00 to 15:00, Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, Smethwick, outside the emergency department entrance

Walsall

• Monday 12 January, 10:00 to 15:00, Gallagher Retail Park, Axletree Way Wednesbury
• Tuesday 13 January, 10:00 to 15:00, Walsall Manor Hospital
• Tuesday 20 January, 10:00 to 15:00, Gallagher Retail Park, Axletree Way, Wednesbury
• Thursday 22 January, 10:00 to 15:00, St Paul's Square, Walsall

Wolverhampton

• Monday 5 January, 10:00 to 14:00, Asda, Heath Town
• Wednesday 14 January, 10:00 to 15:00, New Cross Hospital
• Thursday 15 January, 10:00 to 15:00, Morrisons, Bilston
• Saturday 17 January, 12:00 to 16:00, New Cross Hospital
• Monday 19 January, 10:00 to 15:00, Morrisons, Bilston

Dudley

• Saturday 10 January, 10:00 to 14:00, Dudley Market, 24 Market Place
• Friday 16 January, 10:00 to 15:00, Dudley Market, 24 Market Place
• Friday 16 January, 10:00 to 15:00, Corbett Hospital, Vicarage Road, Amblecote, Stourbridge
• Monday 26 January, 10:00 to 15:00, Living Hope Church, Middlepark Road, Dudley

Wolverhampton council has repeatedly encouraged people to use the clinics and take up the jabs.

Councillor Obaida Ahmed urged people to get vaccinated "to protect yourself, your loved ones and those you care for".

In November, health chiefs warned the flu season had begun early, with cases three times as high as they were the previous year.

At the time, Sally Roberts, the ICB's chief nursing officer and deputy chief executive officer, said: "Whether you're a member of the public, a patient, or a healthcare worker, I'd strongly encourage everyone who is eligible to come forward for their flu vaccination."

The surge in flu stabilised in December, the UK Health Security said, but doctors urged people to continue to come forward for vaccines.

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