Letters: Patients encouraged to use NHS 111 – but then forced to drive to A&E
SIR – The NHS wants us to use 111 rather than 999.
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SIR – The NHS wants us to use 111 rather than 999.
SIR – You report (October 19) that those who can afford to replace their gas boiler with a heat pump will receive a £5,000 subsidy from the Government at a time when millions are facing fuel poverty.
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30 January 2021 • 12:01am Stella Kyriakides, the EU's health commissioner, who said of AstraZeneca's vaccine supply: "We reject the logic of first come, first served. That might work at the neighbourhood butchers but not on our contracts" Credit: Johanna Geron /Reuters SIR – Reading between the lines, it looks as though the AstraZeneca plant in Belgium is having scale-up problems. Hence its “best efforts” fall well short of the EU’s belated order. With our astounding success at securing supplies of vaccines, why don’t we offer to divert any excess UK-made supplies to the EU – p...