Serial number boris graffiti 6 free# The CQC has ‘agreed to continue its pause on routine inspections of general practice to help free up clinicians’ time’. NHS England is ‘looking at whether we can safely reduce or even eliminate the 15-minute wait after the jab is delivered’. New JCVI advice on halving the gap between second doses and boosters means an additional 6.9m over-40s will be newly eligible for a booster, while the expansion of the programme to 18-39s has made more than 7m people in the age group eligible, Ms Pritchard added. She set out that the programme will continue to prioritise the most vulnerable, meaning those who were ‘already eligible’ will be vaccinated first and then bookings opened to others in stages. She is writing to the NHS to set out the next steps, she said. It comes as GP leaders have called for GPs to be freed up to focus on speeding up the Covid booster jab campaign in response to the new Omicron variant of concern. The JCVI yesterday recommended that the Covid booster jab campaign should be expanded to all over-18s in response to the Omicron variant. It also recommended that a booster dose can be given three months after completion of the initial course of vaccination – a reduction from previous guidance of six months.įurther, 12 to 15-year-olds should have their second dose of Covid vaccine 12 weeks after their first dose and patients who are immunosuppressed should be offered a booster dose, three months after their third jab, which had completed their initial vaccination course.