The start of the autumn Covid vaccination programme in England has been brought forward due to concerns over a new variant, and GPs will receive additional payments for each dose delivered.

30 August 2023

Measures such as lockdown, social distancing and face masks were ‘unequivocally effective’ in reducing the spread of Covid-19 in the early days of the pandemic buying time for the development of vaccines and drug treatments, a report from the Royal Society has concluded.

25 August 2023

Greater use of diagnostic tests to help distinguish between bacterial and viral infections will be key to tackling antibiotic resistance, responses to a Government consultation highlighted.

17 August 2023

GPs will be able to directly order diagnostic checks to identify conditions including COPD, asthma, cardiovascular disease and heart failure without a specialist consultation.

03 August 2023

NHSE has launched an e-learning module to support GPs in assessing vulnerable patients and prescribing community-based Covid treatments.

01 August 2023

Doctors felt they ‘might die’ because the NHS was ‘so unprepared’ to cope with the pandemic, the BMA chair told the Covid Inquiry yesterday.

18 July 2023

A group of healthcare workers is demanding face masks are reintroduced in GP surgeries and hospital settings to protect staff against long Covid.

18 July 2023

The BMA has advised GPs not to agree to prescribing duties for Covid treatments unless as ‘part of an appropriate commissioned service’.

28 June 2023

GPs could be asked to take a greater role in the delivery of community Covid treatments for eligible vulnerable patients.

02 June 2023

There was no increase in unsafe prescribing by GPs in the pandemic despite significant disruption to services, a large analysis has found.

31 May 2023