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<p>The COVID-19 vaccination programme is based on the advice of the Joint Committee
on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The JCVI is an independent expert advisory
committee to the Government.</p><p>For the first phase, the JVCI have advised that
the vaccine be given to care home residents and staff, followed by frontline health
and social care workers, including hospice staff and staff working in neurological
and other specialist care homes, then to the rest of the population in order of age
and clinical risk factors, including underlying health conditions.</p><p> </p>
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