Covid-19 vaccine: GPs should decide whether to honour second dose appointments, says minister
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GPs should use their own discretion to decide whether honour existing appointments administer second doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech covid vaccine, minister for vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said. Last week healthcare workers in England were told reschedule dose after government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination Immunisation (JCVI) decided that vaccinating as many people possible with a first be priority.1 The chief medical officers all four UK nations subsequently wrote doctors asking them …
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0959-8138']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n46