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<p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) consists of independent
experts who advise the Government on which vaccines the United Kingdom should use
and provide advice on prioritisation at a population level. For the first phase,
the JCVI has advised that the vaccine be given to care home residents and staff, as
well as frontline health and social care workers, then to the rest of the population
in order of age and clinical risk factors</p><p>Those who are the main carer of an
elderly or disabled person, whose welfare may be at risk if the carer falls ill, should
also be offered vaccination in priority group six.</p>
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