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

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

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 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

21 April 2021

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

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