COVID-19

The latest news and guidance relating to the pandemic and the COVID-19 vaccination programme for GPs and primary care teams.

Essential guidance for GP teams

COVID-19 red flags for telephone triage

31 Mar 2020 CPD
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Coronavirus: Key guidance GPs need to know about COVID-19

30 Mar 2022

Avoiding risks when consulting with patients remotely

29 Jan 2021

How GPs can tackle vaccine hesitancy in BAME communities

22 Feb 2021

Medico-legal: How GPs can deal with referral delays caused by COVID-19

6 Oct 2020
Vaccination tracker

UK COVID-19 vaccination programme tracker

30 Jun 2022

Latest COVID-19 news

GP training: Conducting a successful telephone consultation

9 Oct 2023
Older man receives vaccination

GPs begin early rollout of COVID-19 and flu jabs to care home patients

11 Sep 2023
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Practices will struggle with tight timeframe for COVID-19 jab payments, warns BMA

31 Aug 2023
UKHSA chief executive Dame Jenny Harries

GPs offered extra pay under accelerated flu and COVID-19 jab campaign as new variant spreads

30 Aug 2023
COVID-19 vaccine

Autumn COVID-19 boosters to focus on high-risk groups, JCVI confirms

8 Aug 2023
COVID-19 vaccine

GPs 'despair' as NHS England slashes COVID-19 jab fee

5 Aug 2023
Stethoscope hanging on desk

Doctors with long COVID left 'penniless' as one in five unable to work

4 Jul 2023
Paxlovid – one of the treatments available for COVID-19

GPs could play bigger role in prescribing COVID-19 treatments from end of June

5 Jun 2023
COVID-19 vaccination

Vaccination halves risk of developing long COVID, study finds

23 Mar 2023
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GPs told date for spring COVID-19 booster campaign as NHS reveals eligible groups

24 Feb 2023
COVID-19 vaccine in pregnancy

Vaccination in pregnancy cuts COVID-19 risk for mother and baby

8 Feb 2023
Nurse giving older man a COVID-19 vaccine

JCVI recommends targeted COVID-19 vaccination programme in 2023

25 Jan 2023
GP consultation

GP appointments hit two-year high with 70% face-to-face

25 Oct 2022
COVID-19 booster vaccine

NHS England to trial booking flu jabs online as it opens COVID boosters to over-50s

13 Oct 2022
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UK faces serious threat from flu and COVID-19 'twindemic' this winter

28 Sep 2022
Flu vaccines co-administered with COVID-19 jabs (Photo: Seqirus)

GPs fear 'missed opportunity' to maximise flu jab uptake as tough winter looms

13 Sep 2022

COVID-19 autumn booster vaccination programme begins

5 Sep 2022
COVID-19 vaccination

GPs offered incentive pay to speed up COVID-19 jab rollout in care homes

2 Sep 2022
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Government lowers COVID-19 pandemic alert to level two

31 Aug 2022
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Premature halt to asymptomatic COVID-19 tests threatens staff and patient safety, says BMA

25 Aug 2022
Lateral flow tests

Routine COVID-19 testing in GP practices to stop from next week

24 Aug 2022
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GPs with long COVID let down by lack of support, warns BMA

22 Aug 2022
Person receiving a COVID-19 booster

COVID-19 booster campaign to start on 5 September, NHS England says

18 Aug 2022
COVID-19 vaccination centre

BMA raises 'serious concerns' about GP workload and funding for autumn COVID boosters

16 Aug 2022
Person receiving a COVID-19 booster

JCVI sets out which vaccines to use for autumn COVID-19 boosters

15 Aug 2022
The original Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

First COVID-19 vaccine to target Omicron variant approved for use in UK

15 Aug 2022
Sign outside BMA House

Government's slow COVID-19 response worsened health inequalities, warns BMA

28 Jul 2022
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Burnout risk for GP trainees and trainers spiked in 2022, GMC survey reveals

19 Jul 2022
Thermometer

BMA demands fresh COVID-19 plan as heatwave adds to pressure on NHS

18 Jul 2022
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Last-minute expansion of COVID-19 and flu jabs threatens 'severe problems' for GPs

15 Jul 2022
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