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More than 46,000 hospital staff are currently off work sick with the virus, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British Medical Association, warned members in a letter.
'Give us more vaccines,' say frustrated GPs in Whitstable and Canterbury | Updated: 16:35, 08 January 2021 Health bosses hope the majority of over-80s in the Canterbury district will be vaccinated against Covid-19 in the next fortnight - but doctors say they haven't got enough. By the end of the week, about 6,000 jabs will have been administered in Canterbury, Herne Bay and Whitstable. Dr John Ribchester at the drive-thru vaccination site. Picture: Barry Goodwin But some doctors are frustrated that sparse and unpredictable deliveries of batches are slowing down the vaccination process. Dr...
Kent GPs fight NHS plans to cancel second Covid-19 vaccination appointments | Updated: 12:04, 31 December 2020 GPs in Kent are fighting back against plans to cancel appointments for over-80s to receive the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. NHS bosses yesterday said residents booked in to have a follow-up jab after January 4 should have this appointment rescheduled. Rene Petts, 101, getting her first Pfizer jab in Herne Bay on December 15 The government now wants vaccinations administered 12 weeks apart - rather than 21 days - in order to dramatically speed up the roll-out. But this would...
Diluting the vials means there are seven and a half doses contained in each But instructions say each only contains five to be given to waiting patients NHS England has told clinicians that a sixth dose should be given when possible But it is feared the seventh may be lost when some fluid gets stuck in syringe Britain's regulator is understood to be investigating using the sixth dose Are you one of the people administering the vaccine? Get in touch: luke.a.andrews@mailonline.co.uk
NHS scraps order to 'waste one in six' vaccine doses Clinicians were told during a webinar that they could use six, not five, doses in each vaccine vial after US regulators updated guidance 17 December 2020 • 9:00pm Brian Horne receives the first of two injections with a dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine from Helen Ellis at a GP led clinic in Buckinghamshire Credit: Steve Parsons/PA Wire GPs have been given new guidance that allows them to use Covid-19 vaccine doses that were previously being wasted, the Telegraph has learned. Every vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was ex...