NHS vaccine centres are offering Covid jabs to friends and family aged under 70 in breach of national policy, The Telegraph can disclose.
Senior NHS sources threatened to take disciplinary action against hospitals and GPs across the country offering leftover jabs to relatives and friends of staff despite them being outside the top four priority cohorts.
Health bosses have insisted that drawing up a friends and family list helps avoid waste by ensuring that centres never throw away any Pfizer vaccine, which comes in boxes of 975 doses and can only be stored for five days once thawed.
However, ministers are understood to be determined that younger people with a connection to NHS staff should not be allowed to jump the queue over the vulnerable and elderly.
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