Rammya Mathew: We should use this moment of crisis to make significant gains in vaccine uptake
The recent approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Moderna covid-19 vaccines in the UK has felt…
Category: General practice / family medicine, UK, COVID-19
Covid-19 vaccinations in the community: five minutes with . . . Anuj Patel
“Our practice is one of the vaccination sites in north Barnet. We’ve got a collaboration…
Covid-19 vaccine: GPs should decide whether to honour second dose appointments, says minister
GPs should use their own discretion to decide whether to honour existing appointments to administer…
Covid-19: Vaccine brands can be mixed in “extremely rare occasions,” says Public Health England
Patients should receive the same type of covid-19 vaccine for their first and second doses,…
Helen Salisbury: Don’t squander patients’ trust in the vaccine rollout
The end of 2020 brought a practical lesson in medical ethics that will no doubt…
Covid-19: Doctors must be vaccinated without delay, says BMA
The BMA has called for frontline healthcare staff to be given the covid-19 vaccine as…
Covid-19: Antibodies protect against reinfection for at least six months, study finds
The presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies confers subsequent immunity in most people for at least six…
Covid-19: Expedite vaccination or deaths will surge, researchers warn
Deaths from covid-19 in England in the first half of 2021 could exceed those seen…
Covid-19: Tests on students are highly inaccurate, early findings show
The UK government’s plans for community testing for covid-19 received a further blow this week…
Covid-19: UK regulator approves lateral flow test for home use despite accuracy concerns
The UK’s regulator has approved the Innova lateral flow covid-19 test for people to self-administer…
Covid-19: Guidance is still lacking on how ethnic minorities can protect themselves better, say MPs
Pre-existing inequalities in health, employment, housing, and access to Universal Credit created a “perfect storm”…
Covid-19: UK approves Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine with rollout due to start next week
The UK’s independent Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s…
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Covid-19: UK government asks regulator to assess Oxford vaccine as questions are raised over interim data
The UK government has asked the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to evaluate…
Partha Kar: Delivering covid vaccine—a team effort
Ripples of hope have emerged in recent weeks, with the possibility of a working covid-19…
Helen Salisbury: Careless communication costs lives
Most patients want to know “What have I got? Why? What next?”—and doctors spend a…
Covid vaccine: GPs need more clarity on logistics and planning, say leaders
GPs must not be sidelined in the planning and logistics of how to deliver covid-19…
Covid-19: Innova lateral flow test is not fit for “test and release” strategy, say experts
The government has claimed that rapid lateral flow covid-19 tests, which are being used in…
Helen Salisbury: Managing vaccine expectations
A drug company’s press release about the success of its covid-19 vaccine has led to…
Helen Salisbury: Clutching at straws (and sticky tape)
Doctors like to have answers: it makes us feel useful. GPs take pride in our…
Covid-19: Politicians must be honest about what NHS can deliver during pandemic, say leaders
NHS leaders have called for an honest assessment of what the health service can deliver…
Covid-19: Diagnosis of common conditions in general practice halved during lockdown, study finds
New diagnoses of mental health conditions, cardiovascular diseases, and type 2 diabetes approximately halved in…
Covid-19: Government must fund extra NHS capacity to tackle backlog, BMA urges
BMA representatives have said that the government must fund extra NHS capacity to deal with…
Covid-19: Government faces criticism over {pound}500m plan to pilot mass testing
Experts have questioned the UK government’s decision to expand its testing programme for covid-19 to…
Covid-19: Charity cuts could put the NHS under even more pressure
“This year alone we think our fundraising income is going to fall by nearly one…
Covid-19: Pre-purchasing vaccine—sensible or selfish?
Why are countries ordering covid-19 vaccines before they are licensed?Vaccine development is an expensive and…
Covid-19: Nearly 6% of people in England were infected by end of June, study suggests
Some 3.4 million people in England—just under 6% of the population—are likely to have been…
Covid-19: England comes into line with rest of UK on recording deaths
A month after the “urgent” review promised by England’s health secretary, Public Health England (PHE)…
NICE advises against using graded exercise therapy for patients recovering from covid-19
Graded exercise therapy may not be appropriate for treating post-viral fatigue in patients recovering from…
Helen Salisbury: Normal service will be resumed—but not yet
The health service is slowly returning to normal, after adapting rapidly and radically to meet…
Covid-19: Oxford team begins vaccine trials in Brazil and South Africa to determine efficacy
Vaccine developers at the University of Oxford have begun testing their covid-19 vaccine candidate in…
Helen Salisbury: When will we be well again?
In the heat of the pandemic, news reports focused on patients who were severely ill,…
Covid-19: Test and trace system is not fit for purpose, says Independent SAGE
The government’s test, track, and trace system needs a radical overhaul because it is “not…
Rammya Mathew: We must not be guided by bad science on covid-19
The covid-19 pandemic has forced the scientific world to make a huge number of decisions…
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Helen Salisbury: Testing times for GPs
Patients often turn to their GP for advice on how to stay safe in this…
Helen Salisbury: Battening down the hatches for a second wave
Autonomy is one of the four pillars of Western medical ethics. People have a right…
Clare Gerada: Some good must come out of covid-19
Unlike other recent epidemics (HIV/AIDS, SARS, Ebola), which were mainly contained in specific countries or…