GPC Chair's News: 15 January 2021

The update is here, including:

• Additional funding to support rapid care home vaccination (England)

• Vaccine rollout and mass vaccination centres (England)

• COVID Vaccination Programme (Scotland)

• COVID vaccination programme (Northern Ireland)

• COVID vaccination programme (Wales)

• Vaccination of healthcare workers

• Change in legislation to allow any GMC registered doctor to administer the COVID-vaccine in primary care settings

• COVID-19 vaccinations programme guidance - BMA summary about the vaccine surveillance strategy / CQC letter / GMC letter about the administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccination

• Supporting doctors throughout the second COVID-19 wave (UK)

• Workload prioritisation: Level 4 or 5

• Guidance for clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) patients

• COVID PPE scheme extended until June 2021

• Vote on future negotiations on the PCN DES and PCN survey results (England)

• Pre-registration for offenders leaving prison

• NHSE/I legislative proposals on Integrated Care Systems (England)

• Lateral flow test ordering (England)

• Fit notes (med 3)

• GP Trainee by-election

• COVID-19 media

• GP bulletin