GPs threaten patients over flu vaccine

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EXCLUSIVE: GPs are being warned not to let their push to deliver flu vaccinations this winter spill into "bad behaviour," after a practice was reported to commissioners for threatening to withhold repeat prescriptions unless patients chose to be vaccinated there. The unnamed practice was reported to NHS England and Doncaster CCG by pharmacists who also offer the vaccination. The threat was subsequently withdrawn. Doncaster Local Pharmaceutical Committee (DLPC) and the town's medical committee said that tension between GPs and community pharmacists had risen since 2015 when the government allowed pharmacists to administer flu vaccinations to vulnerable adult patients. Both are paid ￡7.64 for each patient they vaccinate.