The Astra Zeneca Covid vaccine is ‘as effective’ as the Pfizer jab after 4-5 months, a UK study has found.

19 August 2021

Exclusive GPs have warned that an ongoing shortage of blood test tubes could lead to further abuse from patients as well as potential financial losses and negative CQC ratings.

18 August 2021

Fully vaccinated GPs who are identified as a close contact of a Covid case will be ‘expected to return to work’ thanks to their self-isolation exemption.

16 August 2021

The health secretary has set out a new target for all 16-17-year-olds to be offered their first Covid vaccine dose by Monday next week, in a bid to allow them to build immunity before they go back to school two weeks later.

16 August 2021

13 August 2021

The vaccination campaign has prevented more than 23 million Covid infections and around 85,000 deaths in England, figures suggest.

12 August 2021

GPs are having difficulties securing venues from which to deliver the Covid-19 booster vaccination programme, in particular due to sites no longer being available, the BMA has said.

12 August 2021

GPs have been told to suspend non-essential blood tests amid a worsening shortage of test tubes.

11 August 2021

Plans to roll out an autumn Covid vaccine booster programme could be premature, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group has warned.

10 August 2021

More than three in four of UK adults have now received both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, with the campaign estimated to have prevented 60,000 deaths.

10 August 2021