Care home workers who are medically exempt from having a Covid-19 jab will be able to self-certify on a temporary basis, new guidance has said.

28 September 2021

Covid infection control guidance in GP practices is under review and could be relaxed, the health secretary has signalled.

28 September 2021

Conservative MP Maria Caulfield has been named the new minister for public health and primary care as part of Boris Johnson’s recent cabinet reshuffle.

27 September 2021

22 September 2021

Improved artificial intelligence (AI) and training of receptionists would aid GPs in improving rates of early cancer diagnosis, the RCGP’s adviser has suggested to MPs.

16 September 2021

Hoax Government anti-vaccination leaflets discouraging people from getting the Covid vaccine were planted in a GP practice waiting room in Reading.

16 September 2021

Administration of Covid booster jabs will begin ‘next week’, health secretary Sajid Javid has told MPs as he set out the Government’s plans for managing Covid through the winter.

14 September 2021

The Government contributed to the UK’s appalling Covid death toll by chronically starving the NHS of the resources it required pre-pandemic, the UK’s top GP will say today.

13 September 2021

The chair of the RCGP has defended GPs’ use of remote consultations during the pandemic, after a coroner’s report raised concerns over patient deaths.

10 September 2021

GP and practice manager representatives have come together to urge health secretary Sajid Javid to ‘publicly support and defend’ practice teams against abuse and media ‘misinformation’.

10 September 2021