GPs in England will have to scale back care for months to deliver coronavirus vaccines, NHS England has warned. Patients will not be afforded full care at doctors surgeries from December, with medical staff deployed to help administer jabs at at least 1,260 seven-day-a-week vaccination centres.
The NHS has already been stretched to breaking point as the country fends off a second wave, but the Department of Health wants the delivery of vaccinations to begin from December 1.
The pressures of the first wave of the virus in the spring meant much non-Covid care had to be halted leaving many patients in limbo.
Leading doctors have voiced their concerns that the health services don't have enough equipment for such an unprecedented drive, which