The chief medical officers (CMOs) have withdrawn a recommendation for GPs to prescribe inhaled budesonide as a treatment for Covid.

23 December 2021

The UK Government has purchased 4.

23 December 2021

GPs have been asked to limit the samples they send to the one of the largest pathology providers in the NHS due to ‘significant’ Covid-related staff absences.

22 December 2021

The self-isolation period for people who test positive for Covid has been reduced from 10 days to seven in England.

22 December 2021

A second monoclonal antibody treatment has been approved in the UK for preventing hospitalisation in high-risk patients and is being made available immediately, said health officials.

21 December 2021

Dr Toni Hazell outlines key information for GPs on the new Covid-19 treatments that are coming available for patients in the community Up to now there have been two main options for the primary care management of patients with Covid-19.

20 December 2021

GPs have called for more detail on how Covid-19 antiviral and monoclonal antibody treatments to treat those at highest risk in the community are being deployed locally.

17 December 2021

GP practices will be asked to ‘clinically prioritise’ Covid booster jabs over routine care, NHS England has said.

12 December 2021

Healthy under-18s could see a shorter interval between their first and second Covid jabs if a new variant sparks ‘concern’ about vaccine effectiveness, new guidance has said.

10 December 2021

GPs and practice staff are not exempt from self-isolation if they are a close contact of a ‘suspected or confirmed’ Omicron Covid case, new Government guidance has said.

10 December 2021