Booster Covid-19 vaccines and jabs for all children aged 12-15 in Scotland are to begin being offered from Monday, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The change follows a recommendation from the
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Booster vaccines are to be offered to people aged 50 and over, those in care homes and frontline health and social care workers. The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will be used as
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Children aged 12 to 15 in England are to be offered their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said. The move comes after the chief
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Nearly £50 million is to be invested in Wales’s social care sector, the Welsh Government has announced. Most of the funding will be given to local authorities to help meet
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An official who led the Welsh NHS through the coronavirus pandemic is to become Wales’s most senior civil servant. NHS Wales chief executive Dr Andrew Goodall will take over as
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A new £10 million long Covid support fund to help health boards respond to the condition has been announced by the Health Secretary, The fund is designed to maximise and
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Around a fifth of home care staff could leave if the coronavirus vaccine becomes mandatory for remaining social care staff, the sector fears. The Government has launched a six-week consultation
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Health and care workers who refuse to get vaccinated could be moved to back-office roles, the care minister has suggested. Helen Whately (pictured) said there were people who could not
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Consultation has begun on plans to mandate Covid-19 and flu vaccinations for frontline health and care staff, the Government has announced. The six-week consultation process will take views on whether
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The Government must stop housing asylum seekers in “profoundly inappropriate” military barracks, a group of MPs and peers has said. The call comes after immigration minister Kevin Foster confirmed the
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