The health secretary must ‘urgently meet’ with GP Committee leads about ‘what support GPs could be offered to manage the unprecedented rise in workload to meet the needs of all patients’, the BMA has said.

21 September 2021

Certain groups of immunosuppressed people, as well as care home residents, are among those identified as still being at ‘elevated risk’ of serious Covid outcomes despite vaccination, new research has shown.

17 September 2021

The shielding programme put in place to protect those who are clinically extremely vulnerable to Covid has formally closed, the Government has announced.

17 September 2021

Exclusive The Government’s out-of-date advice on Covid symptoms that should trigger a PCR test could be causing around 20,000 cases a day and needs to be changed urgently, a leading researcher has warned.

17 September 2021

Combining the flu and Covid booster programme may not be ‘straightforward’ or even practical, the deputy chief medical officer has admitted.

16 September 2021

People who were fully vaccinated against Covid-19 accounted for just 1% of all deaths involving coronavirus in England in the first seven months of this year, according to new figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

14 September 2021

The UK’s chief medical officers (CMOs) have recommended that all children aged 12-15 are given a first dose of the Pfizer Covid vaccine.

13 September 2021

The Prime Minister has said that the new pandemic recovery plan will deliver more than the 50 million extra GP appointments already pledged by the Government.

08 September 2021

In every weekly news meeting, I’ve been imploring the team to find out the latest on the flu vaccination programme.

08 September 2021

The vaccines minister has said that issues with flu jab deliveries will not cause a delay to the overall flu vaccination programme ‘at all’.

08 September 2021