Health leaders have criticised the “striking absence” of any plan for long term recovery of health and social care services in the government’s latest budget.1 In his annual budget statement on 3 March, the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak pledged an extra £1.65bn (€1.9bn; $2.3bn) to support the continued rollout of the covid-19 vaccination programme, on top of the £55bn of covid support for public services in 2021-22 that was announced in the last spending review in 2020. For biosciences, the government said that it was investing £5m on top of £9m funding to help create a “library” of mRNA vaccines for covid-19 variants for possible rapid response deployment and £28m to boost the UK’s vaccine testing capacity. In addition, it was providing £22m for new and expanded vaccine studies. But although health leaders welcomed …

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Covid-19：卫生领导人警告说，预算未能为NHS提供康复资金

卫生领导者批评政府最新预算中任何长期恢复健康和社会护理服务计划的“严重缺失”。1英国首相Rishi Sunak在3月3日的年度预算声明中承诺额外拨款16.5亿英镑（ 19亿欧元； 23亿美元），以支持继续推广covid-19疫苗接种计划，这是在2020年上一次支出审核中宣布的2021-22年间对公共服务的vid 550亿英镑支持的基础上。对于生物科学，政府表示，将在900万英镑的资金之外投资500万英镑，以帮助创建可用于快速反应部署的covid-19变体的“ mRNA”疫苗库，并投资2800万英镑以提高英国的疫苗测试能力。此外，它还为新的和扩大的疫苗研究提供2200万英镑。但是，尽管卫生领导人对此表示欢迎……