The planned Covid-19 vaccine booster programme later this year will ‘very likely’ involve giving the vaccine at the same time as the flu jab, NHS England’s chief executive has said.

24 June 2021

As a programme is lined up for the autumn, it is still unclear who will receive the jab and which vaccines might be used.

24 May 2021

A new UK clinical trial will test seven different vaccines for a third ‘booster’ Covid shot and report by September, the Government has announced.

19 May 2021

07 May 2021

The Covid vaccine booster campaign planned for the autumn could be pushed back depending on when the jabs are ‘needed’, the deputy chief medical officer for England has said.

30 April 2021

The Government has secured 60 million additional doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for delivery in its autumn booster programme, it has announced.

28 April 2021

Covid vaccinations will continue with an immediate booster jab campaign to tackle variants once the first and second jabs have been completed, health secretary Matt Hancock has said.

19 April 2021

Exclusive Covid booster jabs could become part of core GP contractual work in the future, the BMA’s GP Committee chair has told Pulse.

01 March 2021

GPs may only have to give booster vaccines to vulnerable groups, and not the whole adult population, the chief medical officer has indicated.

16 February 2021

GPs could be administering Covid variant ‘booster shots’ later this year if new strains make this necessary, as the UK Government has placed an order for an initial 50 million doses of modified vaccines.

05 February 2021