Category: General practice / family medicine, UK, COVID-19

The payment that general practices will receive for administering covid-19 vaccines during the upcoming autumn…

Moderna’s bivalent covid-19 vaccine—which targets both the original version of SARS-CoV-2 and the omicron BA.1…

Hospitals and general practices around the country are once more insisting on mask wearing by…

Every day, all over the country, NHS workers go to work even when they don’t…

General practices that wish to continue giving covid booster vaccinations from September have until 14…

The number of patients with acute covid-19 is falling, says the weekly survey from the…

Only around one in four people who had covid-19 reported feeling fully recovered within a…

Our practice has finally reverted to its pre-pandemic appointment system. Patients can book by telephone,…

NHS and care staff, as well as some vulnerable patients, will continue to have access…

Figures from the Office for National Statistics for the week ending 12 March showed that…

The UK government has announced a further acceleration to the covid booster vaccine programme in…

In mid-November our primary care network agreed to pause our delivery of booster vaccines, with…

Most doctors are cautious people. Even if it’s not our natural temperament, we learn it…

The world of Marvel movies and comics involves a whole multiverse where it can be…

How long do you continue with a course of action that isn’t working? When patients…

Over the past few weeks a significant chunk of the UK national press have been…

Can I get a booster shot now?Not in the UK (yet), although you may be…

The UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that people with severely…

An east London general practice that called every one of its patients to discuss covid-19…

Deaf healthcare workers have faced “widespread, systemic discrimination” during clinical practice and through pandemic policies,…

The government must provide “real and meaningful support” to help general practice recover from the…

The majority of vaccinated people who were admitted to hospital for covid-19 were probably infected…

Adults infected with covid-19 three weeks after receiving one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca…

A possible link exists between very rare cases of unusual blood clots with low blood…

An Irish GP who refused to vaccinate his patients against SARS-CoV-2 and referred to media…

Hailed as a “vaccine for the world” with its low price and easy storage requirements,…

Investigations by EU and UK regulators into reports of unusual blood clots after receiving the…

The rate of new coronavirus infections in England fell by about 60% from February to…

Any introduction of covid status certification or “vaccine passports” must have zero impact on GPs’…

Everyone in England will be offered access to twice weekly rapid testing for covid-19 from…

A year ago I became infected with covid-19—a gift from New York, where I was…

On 9 February, with many patients still in hospital with covid-19 and hundreds of people…

A covid-19 booster vaccine is likely to be rolled out in the autumn to avoid…

Doctors spend a lot of time being counsellors and agony aunts. We listen to our…

In the last week, many GPs have been trying to make sense of new lists…

General practices could be offered “additional discretionary payments” to improve uptake of the covid-19 vaccine…

The UK government’s vaccine advisory committee has said that all people on the GP Learning…

We are hopefully entering the final straight of this pandemic, and we can begin to…

Local groups of GPs have decided to prioritise all patients with learning disabilities for covid-19…

The gap between the number of black people and white people vaccinated against covid-19 in…

A “strong decline” has been seen in the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in England among the…

It’s awkward—really awkward—to look back at something you’ve written and realise it hasn’t aged well….

We all know the conventions around replying to the seemingly simple question, “How are you?”…

“Family doctor” might be an old fashioned way of describing a general practitioner, but it…

The chief executive of NHS England has described “genuine and deep concern” that uptake of…

Only a third of local authorities that are rolling out lateral flow testing have made…

After the excitement of running big clinics at our surgery with the Pfizer vaccine, things…

Three quarters of doctors (75%) have received their first dose of the covid-19 vaccine, a…

At the start of this new year, even as we’re buffeted by the unwelcome news…

We started the vaccination rollout with intense activity, preparing to use a whole pack of…