Covid-19 vaccine: GPs should decide whether to honour second dose appointments, says minister

GPs should use their own discretion to decide whether to honour existing appointments to administer second doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech covid vaccine, the minister for covid vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said. Last week healthcare workers in England were told to reschedule appointments for the second dose of the vaccine after the government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) decided that vaccinating as many people as possible with a first dose should be the priority.1 The chief medical officers of all four UK nations subsequently wrote to doctors asking them to …