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

NHS England has written to GPs active within urgent care to ask them to add any spare capacity to support the emergency response over the coming weeks.

04 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

Allie Anderson’s penultimate review of the year looks at the fears that surrounded a winter like no other Most of you will have witnessed the effects of the horrendous cold virus that was doing the rounds in October, which rendered the most resilient of stoics – our esteemed editor (ahem)  – bedbound.

02 January 2022

Today, in Pulse’s review of the year, Allie Anderson looks at the infamous letter from NHS England on face-to-face GP appointments Lots of us relish getting post at this time of year.

27 December 2021

Pulse’s review of 2021 begins with Allie Anderson looking at how the Covid vaccine rollout has been going After a tumultuous and traumatic 2020, the year finished in December with a glimmer of hope as the UK became the first country to authorise the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use.

24 December 2021