GPs lack staff and capacity for expanded booster drive, BMA warns

GP practices do not have the staff or spare capacity to deliver an accelerated COVID-19 booster campaign - and need urgent guarantees from government on cuts to bureaucracy that could help, the BMA has warned.

by Luke Haynes
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