Needed: One Christmas miracle

The Pulse December cover feature is a special on the Covid vaccination programme, following Pulse’s revelation that vaccinations are to start pre-Christmas.

We look at what GPs are being asked to do, whether it can be done, the effect on workload, whether practices will be making a loss on this and we answer frequently asked questions.

Elsewhere, we introduce our Covid-19 clinical toolkit, which is set to go live soon, which gives GPs a single page to find summaries of all the guidelines on how you should be treating patients with a range of presentations during the pandemic.

We answer key questions on using NEWS2, including a handy table to calculate the score and answers on how to interpret the results.

And we take a reflective look at 2020, focusing on all the positive developments GPs have brought about in the most challenging of circumstances and our annual tongue-in-cheek awards for those who have made a tough year that little bit harder.