For the latest advice on COVID-19, please visit the GOV.UK COVID-19 guidance pages and How to stay safe and help prevent the spread of COVID.
Select a topic below to find advice and guidance on specific topics such as testing, vaccination and help for vulnerable people.
The Local Outbreak Management Plan has now been replaced by the B&NES Living Safely and Fairly with COVID-19 Plan. This sets out to:
To find out the latest case numbers, case rates, vaccination uptake rates, hospital admissions data, and number of deaths, visit GOV.UK
To find out who can get free tests, how to get tested, and what your test result means, please visit the NHS Covid testing website.
To find out who is eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations and information on how to book an appointment, please visit the NHS website
You need to be registered with a GP surgery in England to book an appointment online. You can register with a GP if you do not have one.
If you cannot book appointments online, you can call 119 free of charge (lines are open from 7am to 11pm). If you need a translator, have difficulties communicating or hearing, or are a British Sign Language (BSL) user, you can use textphone 18001 119 or the NHS 119 BSL interpreter service
To find your nearest walk-in clinic (no appointment or GP registration required), please visit the NHS walk-in vaccination centre service finder.
If you want to find further information on vaccines, or have any questions, please visit the BSW Integrated Care Board website.
COVID-19 vaccination: Easy read resources on GOV.UK
Easy read guide on COVID-19 vaccines for at-risk children and young people aged 12 to 15
Easy read guide for at-risk children and young people aged 5 to 11 years
Easy read COVID-19 vaccine consent form for children and young people
Easy read style videos for people with a learning disability:
Video about COVID-19 vaccination for people with a learning disability or autism from the NHS
Video from The Misfits Theatre Company CIO and NHS South West encouraging people with a learning disability to get their COVID-19 booster vaccination.
COVID-19 vaccine information videos from the NHS explain how the vaccine is given and give clear evidence that the vaccines work and are safe. Available in Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Igbo, Nepali, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu and Yoruba.
Doctors of the World have resources on their translated information hub, including:
The Community Wellbeing Hub has a professional triage team that can identify and link you to a range of local health and wellbeing services, including:
To contact the Hub, you can:
NHS Volunteer Responders can help with things like:
Find out more on their website, or call 0808 196 36 46 between 8am and 8pm, 7 days a week, to arrange help from a volunteer.
The government has published its plan for living with COVID-19
The government has also published guidance on reducing the spread of respiratory infections, including COVID-19, in the workplace, including how to effectively maintain COVID-secure measures in these settings. It is important that businesses follow this guidance to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and keep people safe.
To find out more about how you can support vaccination of your workforce, please see COVID-19 vaccination: guide for employers and view Public Health England's Vaccination Employer's Toolkit
People with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19 (Translated into Arabic, Bengali, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Pashto, Polish, Portugese, Punjabi, Slovak, Somali, Tamil and Urdu)
COVID-19: ventilation of indoor spaces to stop the spread of coronavirus (translated into Arabic, Bengali, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi and Urdu)
Information about Long COVID (translated into Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Dari, Farsi, Hindi, Pashto, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish and Urdu)
How the NHS COVID-19 app works (translated into Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Somali, Turkish, Urdu and Welsh. Video explainers can be found in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Turkish, Urdu and Welsh)
You can always find the latest information on what is happening locally by doing the following: