English doctors are to be given extra supplies of this winter's flu vaccine in a bid to reduce the pressure on the health service amid rising numbers of coronavirus cases.

Earlier this month, the Royal College of GPs wrote to health secretary Matt Hancock, seeking assurances that they will have enough doses to cope with demand.
Doctors are being advised to deliver vaccines from their own stock and they can then place orders from mid-October for extra supplies from government-secured stock to be delivered from November.