Helen Salisbury: Covid booster chaos

If you spot your local GP with even bigger bags under their eyes than usual or their practice manager missing clumps of hair, this is probably due to this autumn’s vaccination campaign. Starting each September, surgeries run flu clinics—generally on weekends, as we’re busy and our buildings are full during the week. Organising these clinics isn’t straightforward, as there are different vaccines for children and for adults under and over 65, so we invite the various age groups separately to avoid people getting the wrong vaccine. This has recently been further complicated by the fact that we’re also giving covid vaccinations, and the eligibility groups for these vaccines aren’t the same.In early August NHS England announced that it would be reducing the amount paid for each covid vaccine by 25%, which led to some practices deciding that it wasn’t economically viable to deliver this vaccination programme.1 Less than a week…
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