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• New social care plans risk backlash over failure to tackle England’s winter ‘crisis’

  30-11-2021 19:04
  
  Exclusive: long-awaited white paper provides no new funding to help with care providers’ immediate problemsMinisters are risking a fresh backlash over social care by unveiling long awaited proposals that will offer no new funding to help crisis-hit care providers through winter, the Guardian understands.The care minister, Gillian Keegan, is expected to unveil the white paper to parliament on Wednesday in what has been billed as a key part of delivering on Boris Johnson’s 2019 promise
  
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• ‘We’ve been failed’: five vulnerable people on their booster jab wait

  30-11-2021 14:57
  
  As the UK accelerates its Covid vaccination programme, some have already had difficultiesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK has announced it is to accelerate its booster programme in order to increase protection against Covid amid concern over the Omicron variant.The government accepted advice from the vaccines watchdog, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), to cut the gap between the second dose of the vaccine and the booster from six
  
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