Heartland GPs finding ways to encourage seniors to get Covid-19 jabs

General practitioners are relying on long-term relationships with their older patients to help them navigate concerns. ST PHOTO: TIMOTHY DAVID
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SINGAPORE -  Neighbourhood general practitioners (GPs) have been relying on long-term relationships with their older patients to help them navigate concerns over potential side effects and allergies from Covid-19 vaccine shots. 

Dr Tan Teck Jack, chief executive of Northeast Medical Group, said he would spend more time speaking to the senior patients who see him at the clinic in Bedok North Street 3. 

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