By the time you’re reading this, it’s likely most practices will be scrambling around for staff to deliver the second batch of Covid vaccines.

21 January 2021

GP deprioritisation of ‘non-essential’ work must have a ‘minimal impact’ on patients, the RCGP has said.

20 January 2021

There has never been a health crisis like that caused by Covid – it’s not only brought the NHS to its knees, but has paralysed the country as a whole, affecting every sector and threatening the livelihoods and the mental and physical health of many.

14 January 2021

GP access to Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) through the Government’s central portal has been extended until at least the end of June.

14 January 2021

Exclusive GPs in Essex have been asked to go into hospitals and help discharge patients to free up capacity, Pulse has learned.

14 January 2021

The BMA has called for more stringent PPE guidance in primary care amidst ‘significant and growing concerns’ about aerosol transmission of Covid-19 in healthcare settings.

13 January 2021

NHS England has said all PCN Covid vaccination services are ‘expected to’ administer the first dose to care home residents by the end of this week, and by 24 January at the latest.

13 January 2021

This week, I tweeted very lukewarm praise of the Government’s approach to vaccines.

13 January 2021

The BMA and RCGP have said that ‘most’ GP practices in the UK should pause all or a ‘significant’ proportion of their non-essential work.

12 January 2021

More than half of GPs wish to establish remote consultations as the new first-line option after the pandemic, finds Nicola Merrifield It’s been nine months since GPs rapidly adapted to remote working, an approach necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic.

08 January 2021