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

More than two-thirds of eligible adults have so far received their Covid booster jabs, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced.

21 December 2021

Patients will not need to get a fit note until they have been off work for more than 28 days under temporary measures to free up GPs for the Covid-19 booster programme.

20 December 2021

The Prime Minister has written to GPs and other NHS staff saying the Government and nation are ‘right behind them’.

17 December 2021

Exclusive NHS England has asked PCNs that are not signed up to give Covid booster jabs to the under-50s to ‘urgently reconsider’ their participation.

15 December 2021

Fire and rescue and police forces will be among the extra workforce stood up to support GPs to deliver the accelerated Covid booster programme, NHS England has revealed.

14 December 2021

GP vaccination teams will be ‘compensated appropriately’ for delivering Covid booster jabs through the Christmas bank holidays, NHS England has said.

13 December 2021

GP practices will be asked to ‘clinically prioritise’ Covid booster jabs over routine care, NHS England has said.

12 December 2021

A round-up of all the temporary changes made to the 2021/22 GP contract to free up practices for the Covid booster campaign.

08 December 2021

A third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine has been found to ‘neutralise’ the Omicron variant in preliminary laboratory studies.

08 December 2021