A local community has embarked on a significant fundraising challenge in memory of its ‘much-loved’ GP who died with Covid.

19 April 2021

Pregnant women should be offered Covid-19 vaccination, but preferably either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna jab, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has said.

16 April 2021

The risk for people with asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases of severe Covid-19 is not as high as had been feared at the start of the pandemic, say researchers from the University of Oxford.

14 April 2021

GPs could prescribe budesonide inhalers as a Covid treatment ‘on a case-by-case basis’ although it is not ‘at this point in time’ being ‘recommended for routine use’, the Government has said.

12 April 2021

Patients should be given a third Covid vaccine dose in a small number of cases where the second has been given earlier than 21 days after the first ‘by accident’, GPs have been told.

12 April 2021

GPs have warned of unintended consequences from the Government’s latest AstraZeneca Covid vaccine advice, including creating ‘panic’ among patients and adding to the workload of already pressured practices.

09 April 2021

Covid-19 infections have fallen by 60% since February, with the health secretary hailing the impact of the vaccination programme.

08 April 2021

More than one million people in the UK are now living with long Covid symptoms, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.

01 April 2021

NHS talking therapy services will be funded to link up with long Covid clinics as part of efforts to mitigate the mental health impacts of the pandemic, the Government has said.

31 March 2021

GP-led vaccination sites should consider setting up drive-through vaccination clinics where this will improve uptake in their local populations, NHS England has said.

30 March 2021