160,000 people. high levels of immunisation in the rest of the uk means there is a low risk of a large epidemic elsewhere. and nearly 1000 workers are set to take eight days of strike action at gatwick airport. that is over the summer holidays in a row over pay. the workers at four firms will strike in dates injuly and august. you are alive with bbc news and this is the context. next, a report from mp5 here in the uk that can only be described as scathing. it says that some people are being forced to pull out their own teeth at home because they can t get access to an nhs dentist in england. the commons health and social care committee says the pain and distress of people who can t see and distress of people who can t see a dentist is totally unacceptable in the 215t century. many dentists are refusing to accept new adult patients, so some people are having to travel hundreds of miles to get dental treatment. to travel hundreds of miles to get dentaltreatment. let s to travel hundreds
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we are blessed in our party to have talent, people such as sajid javid who can come in with such vast experience and be able to work with a really good team of ministers at the department of health to take that work forward. that was the northern ireland secretary brandon lewis. the chair of the commons health and social care committee jeremy hunt said the new health secretary sajid javid has six months to tackle the social care crisis. my own view is, looking at the entirety of what happened in the last year, there were some of the worst failures of the state in our lifetime and also some of the biggest successes of the state in our lifetime and any dispassionatejudgment is going to have to put those two very contradictory things side by side. i m quite sure you would say the vaccine roll out was one of the great successes, but what happened in care homes, was that one of the great failures? i think it was and i think there was a blind spot there about the social care system, which