Polio boosters to be offered to under-10s after virus is picked up in eight London boroughs – including Hackney
Health experts confirm polio has spread within the community, but stressed that risk to wider population is still low
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‘An attack on women’s bodily autonomy’: Hackney politicians protest US Supreme Court’s decision to end abortion rights
Ruling has ‘reset the clock to a time when the constitution was written by slave-owners’, says Cllr Carole Williams
Pollution-blocking green screens to be rolled out in schools across Hackney
Thirty-two schools are set to receive the natural barriers to protect youngsters from toxic air
Sexual health service launches in Hackney to tackle ‘unfair and avoidable’ inequalities
Project Community will provide free advice and supplies to the borough’s global majority residents
Poliovirus detected in sewage from north-east London – with UK health bosses urging people to get vaccinated
Health Security Agency triggers national incident after finding two samples of the same virus at Beckton treatment works
Homerton Hospital’s new chief executive vows to ‘maintain its reputation for excellence’
Louise Ashley once worked in the Homerton’s children’s wards as a nurse, and rejoins having turned around the fortunes of Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Elderly patient switched off home oxygen supply to save money on electricity, local health boss reveals
Staff member at GP practice was in tears after woman explained she couldn’t afford to run the system
Homerton Hospital boss warns it will take ‘months, not weeks’ to replace staff at beleaguered fertility unit
Acting chief executive Dylan Jones urges patients to get in touch with concerns after staff shortages forced the hospital to pause treatment
Six patients with monkeypox are being treated at Homerton Hospital
Medics say virus ‘does not spread easily’ and the risk to the general population is ‘low’
Saved for next time: Covid documents to be archived for ‘future generations’
The plans and operational paperwork will be kept available, should future public health officials need to learn lessons from the two-year crisis
‘Hackney still not past Omicron peak,’ warn local medics
Doctors estimate that 8.2 per cent of local residents had Covid last week
‘The pandemic has not gone away,’ warns Hackney’s public health boss
Cases in City and Hackney have risen by nearly a quarter in the last week
‘Strong about-turn’: Covid cases rise in Hackney following the lifting of restrictions
‘If these figures do continue they are signalling a very, very unwelcome change of trend’
‘On autopilot without a map’: Hackney Mayor condemns government decision to end free Covid testing
Philip Glanville says move is ‘wrong and unsupported by the science’
Local health watchdog calls for ‘better parity’ in dental care – with NHS patients struggling to get non-urgent treatment amid pandemic backlog
Seven surgeries are accepting new NHS patients for non-urgent care – half the number taking on private patients
Pop-up vaccine clinics are pulling into Liverpool Street station – with health bosses hoping to reach waiting commuters
Christmas week saw highest number of jabs given since Omicron vaccine push began