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GPs can now invite over-42s for Covid jab

Patients aged 42 and over are now eligible for their first Covid jab, amid a surprise update to the online booking system.

27 April 2021

First antiviral added to primary care Covid treatment trial

An antiviral drug used to treat flu has been added to the University of Oxford’s Government-funded research trial into primary care Covid treatments.

23 April 2021

NHSE: GPs expected to treat ‘very limited’ number of Covid patients with budesonide

Only a ‘very limited’ number of patients are expected to be eligible for GP treatment with asthma drug budesonide, NHS England has said.

23 April 2021

Covid no longer leading cause of death in England and Wales

Covid is no longer the leading cause of death in England and Wales, the first time since October, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.

22 April 2021

Government aims for at-home antiviral treatment against Covid by autumn

The Government has launched a bid to identify antiviral drugs that patients can take at home when they have been diagnosed with, or exposed to, Covid.

20 April 2021

Community raises £7k in memory of retired GP who died with Covid

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 vaccine, says JCVI

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

Severe Covid-19 risk with asthma and COPD lower than previously thought

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 can prescribe budesonide for Covid in some cases, after successful trial

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