The sensitivity over this issue was perfectly illustrated last week with the coverage of the actions of one GP group in York.

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Dr Beesley will be a leading GP in the Brighton and Hove clinical commissioning group when the primary care trust is abolished next month.

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Dr Nigel Higson, a Sussex GP and member of the Primary Care Virology Group, said that while the incidence of severe egg allergy was "miniscule", moving away from egg-based vaccines was a good idea.

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Dr Sally Hope, a GP in Oxford and chair of the primary care gynaecology group, said that women with infections such as thrush were already recommended by doctors to eat yoghurt containing live bacteria, and in some cases to insert yoghurt into the vagina.

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