Vaccine centres could face an investigation for allegedly offering "leftover jabs" to friends and family. It emerged last week that some medical centres had reportedly been providing the coronavirus vaccine to people outside the top four priority groups, in order not to waste any spares.

The Pfizer jabs come in boxes of 975 doses and can only be stored for five days once first opened. In a bid to stop vaccine centres inoculating people further down the list, senior NHS staff are calling for disciplinary action to be taken against them.

An NHS source told The Telegraph: "If people outside those groups have been invited, then we will have to investigate that." The queue jumping practice has not just been limited to one place.

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