GPs and consultants need to provide letters confirming the eligibility of their severely immunosuppressed patients for Covid booster jabs, NHS England has said.

08 February 2022

Covid booster bookings have opened for around 400,000 immunosuppressed adults, with the £10/jab fee supplement for participating PCNs extended.

31 January 2022

GP practices have been asked to ‘restore routine services’ following an ‘incredible’ Covid booster drive.

27 January 2022

Covid booster uptake among Black Caribbean people is around half the national rate, with similarly low uptake rate among other ethnic minority communities.

21 January 2022

The NHS is now offering Covid-19 booster vaccines to children aged 12-15 years who are in a clinical risk group, are severely immunocompromised themselves or are a household contact of someone who is immunosuppressed.

21 January 2022

The Covid-19 vaccine booster programme stepped up on 12 December when Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the target to offer a booster vaccine to all eligible adults needed to be brought forward by a month.

20 January 2022

All eligible teenagers aged 16-17 can book their Covid booster jab from this week, NHS England has announced.

18 January 2022

There is ‘no immediate need’ to introduce a second booster dose, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has said.

10 January 2022

More than three-quarters of eligible adults received their Covid booster jab before New Year’s Eve, NHS England has announced.

04 January 2022

Exclusive The push for GPs to see patients face to face will not be paused to allow practices to focus on delivering Covid booster jabs, Pulse has learned.

23 December 2021