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Interview on Talk Radio about new health reforms
8th March 2022

Samedaydoctor was interviewed today on Talk Radio with Julia Hartley-Brewer about the newly announced health reforms outlined below

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Smear once in a lifetime thanks to HPV vaccines?
2nd March 2022

Women who have the HPV vaccine may need only one smear test to help prevent cervical cancer in their lifetime, according to a leading scientist

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Our entry on MYTRIBE insurance website
11th February 2022

Samedaydoctor is delighted to announce that we have been selected to be on an exclusive list of providers-this list is published by myTribe Insurance

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End of mandatory vaccinations for NHS staff
31st January 2022

We were interviewed on GB News and Talk Radio today about this. While we believe it is the correct decision to remove the requirement for mandatory vaccination, we also feel that Covid 19 vaccines give protection against serious illness and hospitalisation

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Omicron variant of Covid 19- you can catch Covid twice!
26th January 2022

Two-thirds of people recently infected with the Omicron variant say they had already had Covid previously. The findings come from a large, continuing study, React, swab-testing thousands of volunteers in England. More work is needed to know how many are true reinfections - but the results reveal the groups that appear to be more likely to catch Covid again

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Common cold may give some protection against Covid 19
11th January 2022

Natural defences against a common cold could offer some protection against Covid-19, too, research suggests. The small-scale study, published in Nature Communications, involved 52 individuals who lived with someone who had just caught Covid-19

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We can expect to follow South Africa in seeing peak omicron Covid cases
31st December 2021

South Africa has lifted overnight curfew rules, with officials saying the country may have passed the peak of its fourth wave of Covid-19 infections. A government statement said the Omicron variant, while highly transmissible, had seen lower hospitalisation rates than previous waves

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Omicron Variant detected in the UK
13th December 2021

The first people in the UK are in hospital with Omicron infections, Nadhim Zahawi has said. The new variant of coronavirus now accounts for a third of cases in London, the education secretary said. With two doses of a vaccine "not enough" Mr Zahawi encouraged people to get a booster jab - those aged 30 and over are eligible to do so from Monday. As of Sunday, there have been 3,137 confirmed cases of the Omicron variant in the UK

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Omicron Covid 19 variant- how worried should we be?
5th December 2021

The first real world data showing the coronavirus variant Omicron may evade some of our immunity has been reported by scientists in South Africa. Scientists have detected a surge in the number of people catching Covid multiple times. It is a rapid analysis and not definitive, but fits with concern about the mutations the variant possesses