Patients no longer need to be monitored for 15 minutes after receiving the Oxford jab, says NHS The 15-minute wait policy was introduced last month in case of allergic reaction Experts have put the likelihood of that happening at about one in a million Critics feared the advice could increase the chances of someone catching Covid … Read more
UK watchdog investigates Ryanair’s ‘jab & go’ ad after complaints that it was ‘misleading’ and ‘trivialised the pandemic’ The ad promoted flights to European destinations and offered seats for £19.99 It said: ‘Vaccines are coming, so book your Easter and summer holidays today’ ‘Vaccines will mean an end to Covid travel restrictions in mid-2021,’ said … Read more
Matt Hancock today insisted teachers have a ‘very strong case’ to be next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine. The Health Secretary told MPs that ministers are currently ‘considering’ who will get the jab once the top four priority groups of the most vulnerable people have been vaccinated. Ministers are facing growing pressure to … Read more
Ministers are facing growing pressure to bump teachers up the vaccine priority list to allow schools to reopen. Senior MPs and industry figures have stressed that a speedy return to lessons is paramount to prevent lockdown wreaking further damage to children’s education. Immunisation of teachers and staff is heralded as the key to get pupils … Read more
Young women are most likely to refuse the Covid jab as poll shows almost a fifth of Britons won’t take it While more than 78% of those sampled said they would accept jab, nearly a fifth (18%) intend to refuse it Find Out Now poll sampled 55,642 people; it found the younger you are, the … Read more
Chris Whitty has warned vaccine shortages could last for months as GPs blast Britain’s ‘grossly unfair’ plan to delay thousands of vulnerable people’s second dose of a Covid-19 jab so that more people can receive their first injection. Chris Whitty, joined by CMOs for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, say the first dose offers ‘substantial … Read more
Questions are being asked over the speed at which the UK managed to approve the ‘game-changing’ Oxford University/AstraZeneca jab. Yesterday, Britain became the first and only country to give the go ahead for the use of the vaccine, following rigorous trials which found no-one who was given the jab became seriously ill. Dr June Raine, … Read more
Doctors will be paid an extra £10 for every Covid vaccine dose they give to care home residents or staff, NHS England has said. GPs will be given the additional payment, on top of the standard £12.58 fee for each jab, to compensate for the ‘additional time and resources’ required to visit patients on site. … Read more
Doctors, MPs and care chiefs have warned the Government that its vaccine programme could turn into a ‘shambles like the PPE fiasco’ if current issues with the rollout are not fixed. Hundreds of GP surgeries and hospitals are still waiting to receive doses of the Pfizer vaccine, while doctors warn they are having to cancel … Read more
Seven care homes in England have so far been given the coronavirus vaccine, according to the Department of Health and Social Care. Figures suggest people in care, despite being identified as the most urgently in need, only account for 0.3 per cent of the 613,000 people who received the jab. Last week Matt Hancock said … Read more