GPs should be asked to carry out as many health checks of patients with severe mental illness as is feasible, including during vaccination appointments, NHS England has said.

14 January 2022

NHS England made £250m available for GPs to increase access during the winter, but with a number of caveats attached.

12 January 2022

The routine cervical screening interval has been extended from three to five years for patients aged 25-49 in Wales.

11 January 2022

Record numbers of people aged 65 and over have taken up the offer of a flu vaccine in England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has announced.

10 January 2022

The number of fully-qualified, full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs in England is continuing to drop, with the BMA warning the development is both unsafe and unsustainable.

07 January 2022

NHS England has instructed Primary Care Support England (PCSE) to temporarily stop issuing requests for GPs to validate its list cleansing activities.

07 January 2022

How long can general practice keep delivering the booster programme while facing fresh targets and dealing with media and government hostility, asks Dr Manu Agrawal We’ve come a long way since I wrote last time about the reorganisation in the NHS in the middle of a pandemic.

06 January 2022

GPs have been given until 14 January to opt-out of delivering Covid jabs to children aged five to 11.

05 January 2022

The long-term Covid vaccination strategy could likely be an annual vaccination similar to the flu programme, the Government’s chief scientific officer has suggested.

05 January 2022

There’s a sense of deja-vu as I sit down to write my annual predictions for the year ahead.

04 January 2022