Covid vaccines are 74% effective in the immunosuppressed after a second dose is given, Public Health England (PHE) has announced.

09 July 2021

GP partner and PCN lead Dr David Coleman outlines the new weight management enhanced service requirements, the workload involved and how much it is likely to be worth to practices The new enhanced service (ES) on weight management is one of two new services announced by NHS England, alongside the new long Covid ES.

09 July 2021

The UK Covid vaccination programme has been a roaring success, largely due to GPs’ efforts, but exclusive figures obtained by Pulse have revealed the extent to which primary care networks (PCNs) in England have exited the programme.

07 July 2021

The time between first and second doses of Covid-19 vaccines will be reduced to eight weeks for all people under the age of 40, the Prime Minister has announced.

05 July 2021

GPs are ‘actively encouraged’ to pool flu vaccines between practices to enable co-administration with the Covid vaccine at a PCN grouping level, NHS England have said.

01 July 2021

NHS England has published a new target for GP practices to deliver appointments ‘at or above’ pre-pandemic levels for 2021/22.

30 June 2021

Almost 60% of GP partners taking part in the Covid vaccination programme want to administer the jabs from their own site but have not had the opportunity, a Pulse survey has found.

30 June 2021

The health secretary has said he is ‘encouraged’ by the Covid vaccine ‘mix and match’ trial, which shows that using different vaccines for first and second jabs could ‘possibly’ lead to better immune responses.

29 June 2021

GPs should expect a resurgence of flu cases alongside another winter wave of Covid, the chief medical officer has warned.

18 June 2021

Uh? In fact, double uh? ‘Uh’ #1 is the news that NHSE is devising an enhanced service to enable we GPs to provide Long Covid services.

17 June 2021