Some 1,700 GP practices have so far signed up to provide Covid swab testing, NHS England has said.

17 November 2020

Most GP practices will be able to order one batch of 40 Covid-19 PCR swab tests per week, under guidance released by the Department for Health and Social Care today.

04 November 2020

GPs will be able to ‘opt in’ to offer self-administered Covid swab testing in their practices, NHS England has said.

03 November 2020

A total of 14 GPs and their staff at one practice have tested positive for Covid-19, as part of a coronavirus outbreak.

26 October 2020

When Pulse broke the news last week that GPs were being told they could only order blood tests for the most urgent cases, it was rightly broadcast across the media.

14 October 2020

Patients’ Covid-19 antibody test results are now being added directly to their GP record, NHS Digital has announced.

24 September 2020

GPs have raised concerns about anxious patients paying ‘extortionate’ prices for private coronavirus tests after being unable to access the government Test and Trace system.

24 September 2020

The isolation period for people with Covid-19 may need to increase to 30 days to avoid the risk of secondary infection, a study has suggested.

02 September 2020

The NHS Test and Trace programme is still struggling to reach the contacts of those testing positive for Covid-19 to ask them to self-isolare, the latest data has revealed.

24 August 2020

The UK has changed the way it records the Covid-19 death toll, reducing the figure by 5,377 to 41,329.

13 August 2020