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Pharmacies will be open on ...

Community pharmacies across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent will be open for business over the Easter Bank Holiday as part of the fight against Coronavirus.  Each pharmacy that is able to will be open from at least 2-5...

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GP practices to offer appointments ...

GP practices across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent will be providing services on Good Friday and Bank Holiday Monday as part of the fight against Coronavirus. Practices will be supporting patients from 8am-6.30pm although most appointments will be ...

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Only order the medicines you ...

Pharmacies across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent are seeing a surge in demand as people “stock up” fearing there may be shortages of medicines due to Coronavirus. “There is no shortage of medicines,” said leading pharmacist Amin Mitha, Head ...

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Phlebotomy walk-in clinics will be ...

From Monday 6 April 2020, phlebotomy clinics will be running from Samuel Johnson Community Hospital and not at Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital, as before. The walk-in bloods clinics will now be held in the Samuel Johnson outpatients department, ...

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Changes to service opening hours ...

Please be aware from Monday, April 6th the Wolverhampton and Midlands Counties Eye Infirmary referral unit at New Cross Hospital will be temporarily changing its opening hours to: Monday to Friday – 9am-3.30pm Saturday, Sunday, ...

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Fire and Rescue Service and ...

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, the NHS and volunteers are undertaking a joint operation to make sure frontline health workers in primary care have the personal protective equipment (PPE) they need in the fight against Coronavirus. The ...

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