EXCLUSIVE The Government will not reimburse practices for locum cover from day one for GPs who self-isolate due to coronavirus exposure, Pulse has learned.

20 March 2020

An ‘The NHS needs you’ campaign is launching today, urging more than 65,000 former doctors and nurses to return to work to support the efforts against coronavirus.

20 March 2020

NHS staff will be offered free hotel accommodation if someone they live with has potential coronavirus symptoms, to avoid them having to self-isolate for 14 days.

19 March 2020

19 March 2020

GPs can defer routine medication reviews to October, under new NHS England guidance issued in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

19 March 2020

The introduction of the structured medication review (SMR) and medicines optimisation service specification – which fall under the PCN DES – will be postponed until October 2020 ‘in the first instance’, NHS England has said.

19 March 2020

NHS England has told GPs to prepare to do significantly more home visits to patients as a result of the Government’s strategy to deal with coronavirus (Covid-19).

19 March 2020

Global demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) and a ban on export of the products in China is causing constraints on securing additional UK supplies, the Department of Health and Social Care has said.

19 March 2020

The RCGP has cancelled all CSA exams for GP trainees indefinitely due to the outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19).

18 March 2020

Chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance has said that 20,000 deaths or fewer would be a ‘good outcome’ of the coronavirus outbreak.

18 March 2020