COVID-19
The COVID-19 Emotional Wellbeing information Hub provides resources, guidance, tips and support for your health and wellbeing. Find out the latest information and frequently asked questions about coronavirus (COVID-19) in Suffolk.
Suffolk County Council Covid-19 Message Cascaders. There’s so much advice and guidance made available about COVID-19 it’s important to share information that’s accurate and easy to understand. Help out by sharing this information with family, friends, colleagues and community groups. Become a Message Cascader! Whether you pass information on to family, friends, work colleagues, community groups or to your other networks – every share helps. Click on the image below to open it as a PDF. For other posters and short videos on a range of topics concerning Covid-19, go to the Suffolk County Council website Message Cascaders page. Do share onwards.
Suffolk Refugee Support are offering a telephone service on 01473 400785 on a Monday, Tuesday and Friday 9.30am – 4.30pm (their normal drop in hours) for Refugees and Asylum seekers. Clients will be asked to provide their name, number and a reason for calling and then a designated member of the advice team will call them back. They are also regularly calling those clients believed to be most vulnerable and they are thinking and working towards remote ways to continue to engage those clients who had been attending the groups.
Get a Covid Vaccination While we don’t know the full scale of the potential impact this new ‘Omicron’ strain will have it’s clear it spreads more easily. Help the NHS by ensuring you are vaccinated against COVID. Appointments can be booked online via www.sneevaccine.org.uk where you can also find details of how how you can attend a walk-in clinic,
Help support the NHS by becoming a volunteer responder. Members of the public can sign up quickly and easily at goodsamapp.org/NHS to become NHS Volunteer Responders, and can be called on to do simple but vital tasks such as:
- delivering medicines from pharmacies;
- driving patients to appointments;
- bringing them home from hospital;
- or making regular phone calls to check on people isolating at home.
More information at NHS England.
Suffolk Coalition Of Disabled People are offering a telephone contact service – for people who are disabled, carers or anyone in isolation that wants someone to chat to. They can be contacted on: 07718 563751 enquiries@scodp.org.uk or via their website. They’ll able to call people back if they a name and telephone number – they do not need other details. They are also happy to accept referrals if they have the permission to pass on the above details. They are available Monday – Saturday 8 am – 8pm
A FREE digital book explaining the coronavirus, for primary school aged children, illustrated by Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler. The book can be read online or printed out, and explains all about the coronavirus and the measures taken to control it. Published by Nosy Crow, and written by staff within the company, the book has had expert input: Professor Graham Medley of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine acted as a consultant, and the company also had advice from two head teachers and a child psychologist. The book answers key questions in simple language appropriate for 5 to 9 year olds.
