All Coronavirus vaccine articles – Page 8
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NewsRevealed: Areas with highest second dose uptake
Fifteen health systems have given at least one in 10 of their fifty-plus population two covid-19 vaccine doses, according to the latest figures from NHS England.
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NewsOnly one in three of trust’s black Caribbean staff vaccinated
Just over a third of black Caribbean staff have been vaccinated at one of the London acutes most heavily impacted by the pandemic, new data has revealed.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The PM’s hymn to greed marks an unhappy anniversary week
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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NewsUptake leaps among final vaccine ‘priority’ cohorts
Around a quarter of 50-54-year-olds were given a first dose of the covid vaccine in the space of a week, according to new figures from Public Health England.
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NewsGender no longer needed to book covid vaccine
Booking a coronavirus vaccine using the national system no longer requires a person to specify their gender, to help boost access among transgender and non-binary communities.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Cohort penetration, as the covid-19 2021-22 cash is sort of sorted
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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NewsLondon boroughs struggle with care home staff vaccine uptake
London boroughs dominate the list of areas with the lowest covid-19 vaccine uptake among care home staff, HSJ analysis of new NHS figures shows.
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NewsVaccine centres must suspend new appointments amid ‘significant reduction in supply’
Mass covid vaccination centres and pharmacies must stop booking new first doses for April due to a ‘significant reduction’ in supplies, NHS England has announced.
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News‘Smoking ruin’ DHSC could not lead vaccine procurement says Dominic Cummings
Downing Street took covid vaccine procurement out of the ‘smoking ruin’ of the Department of Health and Social Care in the early stages of the pandemic, according to Dominic Cummings the former chief advisor to the Prime Minister.
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CommentThe pandemic has given us a playbook for doing things differently
The past exhausting year has shown us the crucial importance of equipping doctors with the leadership skills they need to deliver first-class care, says Dame Clare Marx
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NewsStaff who decline covid vaccine could be redeployed, says NHS England
NHS England has advised trusts to consider redeploying staff who decline the coronavirus vaccine — an approach criticised as a ‘threat’ and ‘sledgehammer approach’ by one union.
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NewsGPs can ‘opt out’ of vaccine effort or move into shopping centres
GP practices providing covid vaccinations have been asked to decide by next week if they want to drop out as the programme moves on to adults under 50, and urged to ‘carefully consider’ whether they can do the vaccinations as ‘business as usual’ begins to ramp up.
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NewsNHSE hard line fails to speed up staff vaccine uptake
There has been only a slight increase in covid-19 vaccination uptake among ‘frontline’ NHS workers, despite NHS England’s hard line, the latest data shows.
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NewsRevealed: Most Nightingales in £500m programme to close
England’s Nightingale hospitals will be “stood down” from providing beds for covid-19 patients by next month, with some of the facilities set to be used for other purposes.
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NewsRegion with the lowest vax take up seeing slowest drop in covid hospital patients
The regional variation in vaccination rates now appears to be significantly impacting the number of covid positive hospital patients in England.
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CommentThe chancellor’s spending squeeze signals a long period of austerity
While the chancellor is going big on the rescue phase of covid, the Budget was silent on how to recover health and social care after the pandemic, writes Anita Charlesworth
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NewsStaff who refuse covid vaccine face 'one-to-one’ with managers
NHS England has called for line managers to have one-to-one conversations with staff who have refused the covid vaccine by next week, to discuss its ‘powerful protective effects’.
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NewsBig cities and staff lag on vaccine uptake
Major urban areas are trailing in the vaccine rollout, with health systems covering London, Birmingham and Manchester reporting lower uptake than the rest of England, new NHS data reveals.
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NewsNHSE targets ‘geographical variation’ in vaccine uptake
Supply of the covid-19 vaccine is expected to leap to double the current rate in a week’s time, NHS England has said, requesting local systems to be ready.
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NewsCalls for GPs to ‘get back to being GPs’ as other vaccine centres ‘empty’
Senior figures running the covid vaccine programme locally are calling for more flexibility, and for a big shift away from GP-run sites in the next phase.