Women face confusion, delays and wasted trips with GPs in no position to offer a choice, say doctors

Organisations representing obstetricians, GPs and midwives say the system to let people choose their vaccines is not viable, with pregnant women being passed “from pillar to post” as they try to book jabs.

As the government announced that people under 40 would also be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine where possible, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) said the system for pregnant women – who are advised to have the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines – was not working.

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