Manchester Acute Children's Treatment Service

21/10/2025

🤧 Feeling under the weather? Help stop infections from spreading with this checklist for you and your family.

21/10/2025

Your pharmacist can provide treatment or some prescription medicine, if needed, for seven common conditions - without you seeing a GP.

Think pharmacy first and get seen by your local community pharmacy team.

07/10/2025

Flu can be dangerous for people at higher risk — including children, older adults and those with long-term health conditions.

Getting the free NHS flu vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and reduce the risk of serious illness.

👉 Book through your GP surgery, participating pharmacy, or in the NHS App.

More info ➡️ https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/flu-vaccine/

07/10/2025

The winter flu and COVID-19 vaccination programmes will begin on 6 October 2025.

Vaccines provide the best defence against winter viruses.

People who are eligible for vaccination against flu or COVID-19 this year should make themselves aware of their own GP surgery’s or community pharmacist’s vaccination arrangements and work with them to get vaccinated.

For further information see www.nidirect.gov.uk/wintervaccines

24/09/2025

24/09/2025

During the winter months, the flu virus can make children seriously unwell.

Make sure your child has the flu vaccine to protect them and your family.

Find out more about the flu vaccine for children 👉www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/child-flu-vaccine/

21/09/2025

Whether you’re buying light-up decorations for Halloween, flashing wands for Bonfire Night or cheap stocking fillers for Christmas, the chances are you’ll be tempted to buy something powered by a button battery in the coming months.

But did you know that if a small child swallows one and it gets stuck in their food pipe it can burn through the tissue and cause life-altering injuries or death?

You might not even know it’s happened until it’s too late.

That’s why our message is simple:

Check all products that come into your home to make sure the button battery compartment is secure with a screw or similar fastener.

If the back is not secured or the button battery is easily accessible, the product needs to be kept out of reach of young children.

Learn more: https://capt.org.uk/button-battery-safety/

21/09/2025

📌Follow the steps below to help protect your family from becoming unwell this autumn/winter and also to stop the spread if you or your child do become unwell.

17/09/2025

17/09/2025

13/09/2025

Today is World Sepsis Day.
Sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection. It happens when the immune system overreacts to an infection and starts to damage the body’s own tissues and organs.
It can be hard to spot, so get clued up on the signs of symptoms below.