Health secretary Matt Hancock is ‘optimistic’ new technology is on the way to enable GPs to test patients for Covid-19 in their practices with an immediate result.

16 September 2020

Health secretary Matt Hancock has said the Government will ‘set out in full an updated prioritisation’ for access to Covid tests, amid news that GPs and other healthcare workers are isolating unnecessarily.

16 September 2020

Exclusive GPs are having to isolate from work because they cannot get tests for themselves or their children who display Covid-19 symptoms, Pulse has learned.

10 September 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out a plan for mass Covid testing of asymptomatic people, in a move which he said would allow some return to normal life.

09 September 2020

Covid testing shortages are being driven by people requesting tests when they don’t need them, health secretary Matt Hancock has said.

09 September 2020

The BMA has urged to the Government to ‘get a grip’ on testing after patients and doctors have shared their frustrations at not being able to access Covid-19 tests.

08 September 2020

The Royal College of GPs says it supports the idea of weekly Covid-19 testing for GPs and other practice staff as long as there are detailed plans around how it would work.

07 September 2020

The Welsh Government is rolling out a system to automatically alert GPs in Wales of their patients’ Covid-19 test results next month.

25 August 2020

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) will test 150,000 asymptomatic people every two weeks, up from a current 28,000, in a bid to map the spread of the virus in the UK.

19 August 2020

GP practice nurses have mobilised in East London to test care home residents and staff for Covid-19 every two weeks.

07 August 2020