GPs working for the Covid-19 telephone hotline can now prescribe drugs to patients using the electronic prescription service (EPS), according to an NHS primary care bulletin.

07 September 2020

Exclusive GPs working for the Covid telephone hotline claim that NHS England is expanding its scope beyond coronavirus without increasing their pay.

04 September 2020

NHS Test and Trace reached an even smaller proportion of identified contacts of people who tested positive for Covid-19 in the last week for which data was published.

03 September 2020

GPs will be paid to identify patients of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and offer education on Covid-19 risks as well as health reviews, under a new locally commissioned service.

03 September 2020

02 September 2020

Pregnant women with Covid-19 are less likely to have symptoms, but more likely to need intensive care, and give birth early, a study has shown.

01 September 2020

Care homes across the UK accepted patients who tested positive for Covid-19, two surveys have showed, and could have been pressed into doing so.

01 September 2020

Doctors meeting for the BMA’s annual representative meeting will be vote on motions concerning the Government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and doctor pay in its first virtual conference.

28 August 2020

An ‘expanded workforce’ will be delivering flu and a potential Covid-19 vaccine, under proposals unveiled by the Government today.

28 August 2020

People self-isolating due to Covid-19 in the highest-risk areas of England will get paid while doing so, health secretary Matt Hancock has announced.

27 August 2020