Get ready to start vaccinating by December 14, British GPs told

GPs gear up to start dishing out Covid-19 vaccine (BioNTech SE 2020/PA)

GP surgeries across the UK have been told to be ready to start staffing Covid-19 vaccination centres by December 14.

In a letter sent out across England’s primary care networks, NHS England and NHS Improvement warned the “scale and complexity” of the immunisation programme would make it “one of the greatest challenges the NHS has ever faced”.