The UK medicines regulator has approved Moderna’s new Omicron Covid vaccine for delivery, it has announced. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) today announced that it has granted approval for Moderna’s adapted Covid vaccine, which targets both the original virus from 2020 and the Omicron variant. It said that the bivalent vaccine has

General practice needs urgent support ahead of winter, including an immediate reduction of bureaucracy, the RCGP has said. Commenting on NHS England’s winter support announcement, made at the end of last week, the college pointed out that winter pressure ‘will not be confined to hospitals’. The plan included boosting hospital capacity with extra beds and

More than one in ten referrals from a GP to a long Covid clinic is rejected for being clinically inappropriate, figures have revealed. In England, there were 55,687 referrals to an NHS post-Covid assessment centre between 5 July 2021 and 10 April 2022, of which 49,159 were accepted, a Department of Health and Social Care