We increasingly use the NHS App to send important information such as updates about your care or treatment, appointment information and reminders, and responses to queries or advice requests.
The NHS App is designed to notify you when a new message arrives, but you will only receive these alerts if notifications are enabled on your device. For instructions on how enable these, please click here.
Without notifications switched on, you may not realise that a message has been sent to you unless you open the app and check manually.
There are concerns locally and nationally as there has been a concerning rise in school absences with a large proportion attributable to illness. It seems that some parents are now, post-COVID, less confident in assessing if their child is well enough to be in school.
A new publication from the NHS ‘Is my child too ill for school?’ is highly informative and we encourage all parents to read it.