{"id":500,"date":"2026-03-23T20:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/m86017\/?p=500"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:04:55","slug":"meningitis-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/m86017\/meningitis-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Meningitis outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are aware that the recent meningitis (MenB) outbreak in Kent has caused understandable concern. We would like to advise that the MenB vaccine is not routinely available to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>If you have NOT been contacted in relation to the outbreak from Kent to say you are eligible for vaccination, you do not need a MenB vaccine at this time. Please do NOT contact your GP Practice to request a vaccine unless you have been specifically advised you are eligible.<\/p>\n<p>If you are unwell or worried about symptoms of meningitis, please contact your GP practice, call NHS 111, or seek urgent medical attention if symptoms are severe. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/meningitis\">https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/meningitis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are aware that the recent meningitis (MenB) outbreak in Kent has caused understandable concern. We would like to advise that the MenB vaccine is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"1970-01-01 01:00:00","action":"","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","browser_timezone_offset":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/m86017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/m86017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/m86017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/m86017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/m86017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/m86017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/m86017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/m86017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}