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Health and Social Care Secretary sets out plan for patients with new funding to bolster social care over winter
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Health and Social Care Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Thérèse Coffey announces the government’s new ‘Our plan for patients’ to improve care for patients this winter and next.
Folic acid to be added to non-wholemeal flour across the UK to help prevent life-threatening brain and spinal conditions in foetuses.
New centres will provide quicker diagnoses to patients – a step forward in the government’s plan to roll out 160 centres by 2025.
Residents of the UK and the Bailiwick of Guernsey can access free emergency and necessary healthcare when visiting either territory from 1 January 2023.
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