The Camden Mobile Health Bus
will be visiting St Peter's on Saturday 18th May
from 11:00am to 4:00pm
Come and visit us for a BMI assessment and blood pressure check, COVID spring boosters for eligible people, smoking cessation, information and advice, no appointment needed
In addition to our health service you can also
access the following services during this session:
- WISH+ : A range of warmth, income,
safety and wellbeing services
for those on low income - Well and Warm service: Advice on keeping
warm at home and on energy savings - Air Quality service: Air quality monitor loans,
health risk awareness around wood burning
and vehicle idling - Belsize Community Library: Volunteering
and activities at the local community library
Spring 2024 booster eligibility
COVID-19 is more serious in older people and in people with certain underlying health conditions.
For these reasons, people aged 75 years and over, those in care homes, and those aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system are being offered a spring dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Immunosuppression
Immunosuppression due to disease or treatment, including patients undergoing chemotherapy leading to immunosuppression, patients undergoing radical radiotherapy, solid organ transplant recipients, bone marrow or stem cell transplant recipients, HIV infection at all stages, multiple myeloma or genetic disorders affecting the immune system (e.g. IRAK-4, NEMO, complement disorder, SCID).
Individuals who are receiving immunosuppressive or immunomodulating biological therapy including, but not limited to, anti-TNF, alemtuzumab, ofatumumab, rituximab, patients receiving protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors, and individuals treated with steroid sparing agents such as cyclophosphamide and mycophenolate mofetil.
Individuals treated with or likely to be treated with systemic steroids for more than a month at a dose equivalent to prednisolone at 20mg or more per day for adults.
Anyone with a history of haematological malignancy, including leukaemia, lymphoma, and myeloma.
Those who require long term immunosuppressive treatment for conditions including, but not limited to, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, scleroderma and psoriasis.