It may feel like a lifetime ago, but it was just about a year since we started hearing about a new form of coronavirus.

28 December 2020

As GPs embark on the Covid-19 vaccination programme, Lily Canter asks if it will leave space for anything else ‘There has been a lot of work I’ve not been able to do in my normal day-to-day job in trying to do this,’ says Dr Geetha Chandrasekaran, clinical director of North Halifax PCN, of the Covid vaccination programme.

23 December 2020

GP practices can now request a ‘daily list’ of patients eligible for remote pulse oximetry monitoring, NHS Digital has said.

22 December 2020

GP practices have been invited to order additional Covid vaccine stock so they can begin vaccinating care home residents.

21 December 2020

Well done NICE.

21 December 2020

GP Covid vaccinations are set to be rolled out more widely to care homes in England from next week, NHS England has said.

18 December 2020

GPs should consider referring patients with long-term symptoms of Covid-19 to specialist clinics as soon as four weeks after acute infection after ruling out other diagnoses, NICE has recommended.

18 December 2020

GPs in Northern Ireland have been told they will lose their protected payments from QOF and enhanced services unless they staff Covid centres.

16 December 2020

The BMA has said that the ‘challenges’ faced by practices signed up to deliver the Covid vaccine from this week are ‘frustrating’.

15 December 2020

UK scientists have identified a new strain of Covid-19, health secretary Matt Hancock has announced.

15 December 2020