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

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

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

Almost a quarter of GP partners in England say their primary care network (PCN) decided to opt out of phase 2 of the Covid vaccination campaign, with the main reason being intense workload pressures.

01 June 2021