Professor Tim Spector of King s College London, pictured, said he has changed his mind about recommending Vitamin D for patients after reading studies questioning its effectiveness.
BARNEY CALMAN: TMOS s Deputy Health Editor Eve Simmons and I went to a branch in Fulham to give our verdict and to look into whether you re doing your health a favour by eating one.
Last week I downloaded the NHS App. I don t mean the NHS Covid app – I have that too but disabled it months ago because it endlessly pinged messages telling me I d been exposed to Covid when I hadn t even left the house.
The NHS App has, apparently, been knocking around for years, offering a way for patients to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and view medical records. But I d never heard of it prior to this month, when it was announced it would become our default Covid passport: a way of displaying our vaccination status.
We are likely to need it to go abroad – just showing that card they give you when you have a jab won t work. Roughly 50,000 Britons have been downloading it every day since this relaunch, and I decided to join them. I ve already used it to order a repeat prescription for my eczema cream, which took seconds. It was ready to collect from my local Boots the next day.