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COVID infections rise by 14% in a week in UK
As reported by the BBC, COVID infections in the UK are rising and have topped more than one million, according to official estimates There has keep reading
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Flu and COVID could make this a hard winter for UK
As reported by the BBC, The UK must prepare for a big, early wave of flu, experts warn UK Health Security Agency chief medical adviser keep reading
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Autumn NHS COVID vaccination funding plunges from £11m to £4m
As reported by The Guardian, the COVID jab budget is decreased by over 60% ahead of winter The NHS’s autumn COVID jab budget has gone keep reading
Health & Patient Care
Long COVID and why some people are travelling abroad for treatment
Madlen Davies reports on patients with long COVID who are travelling to private clinics across Europe for blood-filtering apheresis and anticoagulation drugs CREDIT: This is an keep reading
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Autumn COVID booster jab offered to over 50s
As reported by the BBC, COVID cases are expected to rise in autumn and winter Autumn COVID booster jabs are set to be distributed to keep reading
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UK becomes the first country to approve dual-strain vaccine
As reported by BBC News, a dual vaccine which tackles both the original COVID virus and the newer Omicron variant has been approved in the keep reading
Practice Operations
When to charge for hepatitis B vaccinations
When can practices charge? We look at the three areas of travel, occupational health and medical/lifestyle reasons Travel Hepatitis B immunisation is NOT paid for keep reading
Management
Should the COVID vaccine be given intranasally?
An interesting review published by Alu and others in The Lancet in February tries to summarise this issue CREDIT: This is an edited version of keep reading
Comment
The impact of the government’s vaccine mandate U-turn
An avoidable and costly episode that raises concerning questions about governance CREDIT: This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared on The keep reading
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Primary school children receive the first dose of the COVID vaccine
As reported by the BBC News, young children outside of high-risk groups are now being offered the COVID jab Thousands of children are already signed keep reading