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the new measures for gps in england, an attempt to meet what's been described as a national mission to increase vaccine capacity. 0ur health correspondent laura foster has been telling us how unusual a step this is. so, it was earlier this year, a month into the vaccination programme on the 7th of january that nhs england sent out a very similar letter to its gps and directors of primary care, saying that you can suspend nonessential work in order to make sure that we've got enough people around to deliver the covid—19 vaccination programme. now, so much has changed since january but gps still have a very high workload. on top of the stuff that they are already doing, they've got the backlog from the first, second and third wave, winter pressures are really starting and now they've got to contribute to the biggest expansion of the vaccination programme yet. now, some people will be worried by today's news and to them nhs england want to point out that it's not a blanket ban, it's