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

13 December 2021

Exclusive The Government’s relaxation of the 10-day isolation requirement for contacts of Omicron cases does not apply to GPs and other health and care staff, Pulse has been told.

13 December 2021

The Government has ‘temporarily suspended’ home ordering of lateral flow test kits (LFTs) ‘to fulfil existing orders’.

13 December 2021

NHS England will do ‘everything it can’ to share the ‘right messages’ about general practice amid ongoing abuse and criticism, primary care medical director Dr Nikki Kanani has said.

10 December 2021

GPs are being asked to carry out an impossible workload as PCNs, yet told they’re lazy for not seeing patients face to face, says Victoria Vaughan A sense of fatigue is setting in for GPs at the helms of PCNs.

02 December 2021

GPs have been advised to order a PCR test for patients who have returned from a number of African countries in the past 10 days, and isolate them in a side room ‘if possible’.

29 November 2021

England GPs have called for NHS England to ‘guarantee funding security’ for GP practices until the end of March.

26 November 2021

GPs in England have called for practices to be able to ‘switch off’ NHS 111 referrals when practices are being overwhelmed with demand.

26 November 2021

GP practices delivered two million more face-to-face appointments last month compared with September, with the proportion rising to nearly two thirds.

25 November 2021

25 November 2021