Patients dropping in for flu and top-up Covid vaccinations this autumn will be offered a health check at the same time, NHS England has announced.

16 June 2021

GPs will be funded to treat patients suffering with long Covid via a new enhanced service worth £30m, NHS England has announced.

15 June 2021

GPs will soon be able to refer children and young people to new long Covid clinics as the specialist services are expanded.

15 June 2021

11 June 2021

Patients under 30 will start to become eligible for Covid vaccination from tomorrow, starting with those aged 25-29, NHS England has announced.

07 June 2021

Long Covid is still affecting about a million people in the UK, with the number of patients living with symptoms for many months on the rise, the llatest Office for National Statistics data have shown.

07 June 2021

The UK Government has requested extra doses of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine developed for use against the South Africa variant, it has announced.

02 June 2021

Immunity after mild Covid-19 infection has the potential to last for years, a small study in the US suggests.

28 May 2021

All over-18s are now being invited to book an appointment for a Covid-19 jab in Northern Ireland and Wales.

27 May 2021

Exclusive GPs have been told they must conduct FIT tests before referring patients with suspected bowel cancer to secondary care, Pulse has learned.

26 May 2021