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GPs will scale back care to deliver coronavirus vaccines
GP services will be cut back well into 2021 so family doctors can immunise millions of people against coronavirus at new seven-day-a-week clinics.
NHS England has warned that surgeries will not be able to offer their full range of care for patients from December as doctors and nurses will be immersed in administering jabs at more than 1,200 mass vaccination centres across England, potentially including sports halls, conference centres and open air venues.
GPs will open at least 1,260 mass vaccination centres across England, 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Primary care services are to be given £150 million to help them hire more GPs and expand the help they give patients affected by the disease, including those suffering from ‘long Covid-.
Although considered crucial in returning the country to a sense of normality, the news coincides with increasing concerns about pressure on an already stretched NHS and the toll on patients after much normal care was suspended during the first wave of the pandemic.
NHS England has agreed with the British Medical Association that family doctors will play the lead role in the vaccination drive, which Health Secretary Matt Hancock described as a ‘mammoth logistical operation’.
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