GPs and practice staff who are asymptomatic but still returning a positive LFT result on day 10 of their Covid isolation period should be risk assessed to return to work, according to new guidance.

10 January 2022

An estimated 1.

06 January 2022

GPs will be required to refer a ‘modest number’ of patients who could be eligible for antiviral treatments against Covid, NHS England has said.

05 January 2022

GP practices are struggling with Covid staff absences, with a survey indicating that 95% are experiencing much higher levels of staff off sick than usual.

05 January 2022

GPs must conduct FIT tests for all ‘urgent’ referrals for suspected lower GI cancer, as part of a raft of priorities for the New Year, NHS England has said.

04 January 2022

In the latest in Pulse’s review of the year, Allie Anderson looks at how non-white ethnic groups have faced worse outcomes in the pandemic The term black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) is problematic, and not just because of semantics.

30 December 2021

The chief medical officers (CMOs) have withdrawn a recommendation for GPs to prescribe inhaled budesonide as a treatment for Covid.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