Pulse’s take on the day’s health news and what it means for GPs.

01 March 2016

22 June 2015

This document from NHS Employers provides detailed guidance for practices providing vaccination programmes commissioned by NHS England, including the new booster programmes for HPV and Meningitis C.

14 May 2015

13 May 2015

01 April 2015

Public Health England is urging freshers students to get their Men C booster jab from their GP at least two weeks before starting university.

19 August 2014

GP leaders are calling on health chiefs to reinvest the money they have failed to use to fill training places to cover ‘rapidly emerging’ workforce gaps in general practice.

25 July 2014

Vaccination against whooping cough poses little danger to pregnant women or their unborn children, a study has found.

11 July 2014

Dr Kay Wang describes how her study demonstrated the burden of whooping cough remains significant and what GPs need to know.

25 June 2014

GPs should consider pertussis as a cause of persistent cough even in children who have been immunised, suggests a study that has found a fifth of school-age children presenting to the GP with persistent cough may be infected.

25 June 2014