UK regulators have approved the Novavax Covid vaccine after a series of delays to the approval process.

03 February 2022

GPs and their patient-facing staff will no longer be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by 1 April, the health secretary has announced.

01 February 2022

Covid booster bookings have opened for around 400,000 immunosuppressed adults, with the £10/jab fee supplement for participating PCNs extended.

31 January 2022

GP-led vaccine sites signed up to deliver Covid jabs to eligible 5-11s will begin rolling out vaccinations to the cohort this week, NHS England has announced.

31 January 2022

A second antiviral treatment for people most at risk of serious illness from Covid-19 will be made available from next month, the Government has announced.

28 January 2022

Covid-19 cases may have started to level off in England after the highest-ever prevalence, but experts are concerned about a rise in infections among older people.

28 January 2022

CCGs are to provide fit testing for GPs and practice staff who have been risk-assessed as needing FFP3 masks, the BMA has said.

26 January 2022

Routinely testing for viral and bacterial pathogens in flu-like illness is meaningless because there are no differences in how patients present, the course of their disease or how severe their illness is, researchers have concluded.

25 January 2022

Updated infection prevention and control (IPC) guidance has suggested that GPs treating patients with a ‘suspected or confirmed’ Covid infection must wear an FFP3 mask.

21 January 2022

All GP practices must ‘immediately’ begin identifying 5-11s who are eligible for a Covid vaccine, NHS England has said.

20 January 2022