A top GP has warned the UK faces a disastrous waste of vaccine doses after the Government's decision to U-turn on its original inoculation plan.
Downing Street has opted to delay the vital second dose of the Pfizer vaccine for the elderly from 21 days to three months. But the timing of the move was "wrong", according to Dame Clare Gerada.
The ex-chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and a practising GP, said one million people in their 80s and older would now have to be contacted in order to arrange new appointments.
The re-think comes days before they were due to be vaccinated later this week, which members of the Doctors' Association have already called a "gamble".
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