Category Trudi Grant

Somerset Public Health leaders urge caution and care as Covid restrictions set to ease

13 July 2021 · by · in Clare Paul, Coronavirus, covid-19, Latest information, Press releases, Public Health, Trudi Grant

Public Health leaders in Somerset are urging people to proceed with caution and act responsibly as the country prepares for the easing of national Covid-19 restrictions. From Monday 19 July, the majority of legal restrictions relating to Covid-19 will be lifted, but the risks of Covid-19 have not gone away. Somerset’s Covid-19 Local Engagement Board […]

Your Somerset – Summer 2021

5 July 2021 · by · in Adult Social Care, bus services, Children, Young People and Families Plan, Cllr David Fothergill, Consultations, Coronavirus, Democracy, domestic abuse, Duke of Edinburgh, economic development, Environment, families, Families and Children, finance, fostering, health and wellbeing, Libraries, Public Health, Recruitment, Social Care, Trudi Grant, Your Somerset

Check out the latest edition of Your Somerset – out now… Your Somerset is delivered to households across Somerset, three times a year and contains news and information about the Council’s services and  campaigns and projects that County Council and our partners are involved in. You can download and read the most recent edition of […]

Somerset Public Health campaign encourages residents and tourists to stay Covid-safe

21 June 2021 · by · in Coronavirus, covid-19, Latest information, Press releases, Public Health, Trudi Grant

Today, in partnership with Visit Somerset and Visit Exmoor, Somerset County Council’s Public Health department is launching a new campaign thanking Somerset residents and visitors for adhering to the Covid-19 guidance and encouraging them to keep doing so. Along with vaccinations, there are many things people can do to keep themselves and each other safe […]

New Covid-19 Testing site opens in Brean

2 June 2021 · by · in Coronavirus, covid-19, Latest information, Press releases, Public Health, Trudi Grant

A new walk-through coronavirus testing facility has opened for locals and holidaymakers at the Seagull Inn in Brean. The new testing site opened on Saturday, May 29 and is only available to those with Covid-19 symptoms – a high temperature, a new continuous cough, or a loss or change to your sense of smell or […]

Assisted rapid testing for people without symptoms of covid-19 now available in local pharmacies

1 May 2021 · by · in Coronavirus, covid-19, Latest information, Press releases, Public Health, Trudi Grant, Uncategorized

People in Somerset will have access to assisted covid-19 testing from today (Saturday 1 May) as the county takes another important step in the roadmap out of lockdown. Somerset’s Director of Public Health is encouraging everyone to access free, regular, rapid Covid-19 testing. This regular testing is for people who do not have symptoms of […]

Council staff book 30,000 Coronavirus vaccines for Somerset residents

29 March 2021 · by · in Clinical Comissioning Group (CCG), covid-19, health and wellbeing, Health Protection, Press releases, Trudi Grant

More than 30,000 local people have been contacted and invited for a Covid-19 vaccination by staff from Somerset’s five councils. Since the opening of vaccination centres in the county, staff from Somerset County Council, Mendip District Council, Sedgemoor District Council, Somerset West and Taunton Council and South Somerset District Council have been working together contacting […]

More groups urged to get Covid-19 tested

23 March 2021 · by · in Coronavirus, covid-19, Latest information, Press releases, Trudi Grant

Free Coronavirus community testing is now available for even more groups of Somerset residents to help break chains of transmission and keep communities safe. Around one in three people with Coronavirus do not have symptoms. Community testing, using lateral flow devices, is a fast and simple way to test people who do not have symptoms, […]

Somerset Coronavirus reflection page

17 March 2021 · by · in Coronavirus, covid-19, health and wellbeing, mental health, Public Health, Trudi Grant

This page is a permanent memorial and place of reflection dedicated to everyone we have lost to Coronavirus. We honour their memory – they will forever be with us in the hearts of those they left behind. Feel free to share your photos, stories, names or to reflect on your experiences through the Coronavirus pandemic. […]

Director of Public Health encourages all households with school age children to regularly COVID-19 test

16 March 2021 · by · in Coronavirus, covid-19, Latest information, Press releases, Public Health, Trudi Grant

Trudi Grant, Director of Public Health at Somerset County Council, urges all Somerset families and households with children to start to take a free Covid-test twice every week. Each person in a Somerset household with primary, secondary and college age children, including childcare and support bubbles, are encouraged to test themselves at home twice every […]

More than 200,000 vaccinations offered in Somerset

2 March 2021 · by · in Clare Paul, Clinical Comissioning Group (CCG), Coronavirus, covid-19, health and wellbeing, Health Protection, Press releases, Public Health, Trudi Grant

The latest national figures confirm that 20 million people across the country have now been offered the COVID jab. Locally, the NHS vaccination programme in Somerset has also reached a new milestone, with over 200,000 vaccinations given to people in the highest priority groups. Health and care teams have continued to work extremely hard to […]

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