The Government is in ‘ongoing’ discussions with flu vaccine suppliers over whether a central stock will be provided for this year’s expanded programme, the Department of Health and Social Care has said.

10 August 2021

Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is still 93% effective six months after the second dose is given, trial results have shown.

09 August 2021

NHS England has now instructed practices to begin vaccinating eligible children against Covid, a week after some practices had to cancel initial bookings.

06 August 2021

New NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard has praised GPs for the success of the Covid vaccination programme on her first outing taking up the post this week.

05 August 2021

Primary care networks (PCNs) will no longer be provided with some of the equipment they need to deliver Covid vaccinations during the booster programme this autumn, NHS England has said.

03 August 2021

GPs will be able to vaccinate patients against flu who are not registered with their practice this year in a ‘key’ change to the service announced by NHS England.

03 August 2021

The vast majority of PCN leaders do not want any new network service specifications to be implemented this year, a new report has revealed.

02 August 2021

Patients may choose to get their flu vaccination through a ‘different provider’ than their GP this year if the Covid booster programme includes co-administration of the two jabs, NHS England has acknowledged.

30 July 2021

This information is sourced from: NHSE, GOV UK, The Green Book Chapter 14a, PHE, FDA, Guidelines on location and timing of second doses and when to use an alternative vaccine to the first dose Location Generally people in all cohorts should be given dose 2 at the same site as they had dose 1 (i.

30 July 2021

The UK will donate nine million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine in an attempt to stem rising Covid infections around the world.

28 July 2021