GPs could be asked to take a greater role in the delivery of community Covid treatments for eligible vulnerable patients.

02 June 2023

There was no increase in unsafe prescribing by GPs in the pandemic despite significant disruption to services, a large analysis has found.

31 May 2023

Up to one in 20 new cases of diabetes could be linked to Covid infection, a large study has concluded.

20 April 2023

An updated list of patients eligible for Covid treatments because they are most at risk of the disease has been published by an independent advisory group.

14 April 2023

GPs have raised concerns that vulnerable patients may struggle to access Covid treatments in time under plans to move responsibility for the service to ICBs.

12 April 2023

To mark three years since Covid was declared a pandemic, Dr Katie Musgrave reflects on how the respiratory disease – and our response to it – has impacted our lives It’s almost as if the past three years never happened.

28 March 2023

Dysregulation of an immune cell appears to underpin specific symptoms in patients with long Covid, researchers have said.

28 March 2023

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld a complaint made by a GP against a company that advertised an at-home blood test to help people manage their health as ‘free if we don’t find anything’.

14 March 2023

The Covid-19 Infection Survey, set up in April 2020 to provide weekly data on rates of circulating virus and new variants as well as the prevalence of long Covid, will be paused at the end of the month.

14 March 2023

People will no longer be able to get a first or second dose of Covid-19 vaccine after 30 June, the Government has announced.

09 March 2023