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Social care crisis, Faster checkouts, Gin

How Britain's social care crisis could be improved. The new instant self-checkout - how is it going down with customers? And are we paying too high a price for gin?

You & Yours has been given exclusive access to a new report about social care in Britain.
A joint report from the King's Fund and Health Foundation says the system for funding social care needs urgent reform.
It also sets out how the failing care system could be improved.
The regulator, the Care Quality Commission, has already said social care is in a 'precarious state'.
And the government watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority, estimates a funding gap of at least 拢1 billion by 2025.
Our reporter, Samantha Fenwick, brings us the latest, including what improvements could be made for patients and those caring for them.

Long queues, barcode scanning and unexpected items in the bagging area - these are some of the frustrations we normally face when paying for shopping at a self-service checkout.
All that could be set to change following the introduction of a new instant checkout scanner made by IBM.
All you have to do is place products on the self-checkout counter and it'll pick up the price and weight and process the payment within seconds, using a smartphone.
Our reporter, Vishva Samani, visits a petrol station in London that's piloting it.

Sales of gin are booming. It's now taken overtaken vodka and whisky as the nation's favourite spirit and last year we bought 47 million bottles of it.
The rise in the popularity of gin means some bottles can retail for up to 拢45.
What you pay for a bottle of gin depends on things like the brand and the scale of production, but also the process of making the gin too.
But do consumers really know what they're paying for? We find out.

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Tara Holmes.

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45 minutes

Chapters

  • Social Care

    The system for funding social care needs urgent reform.

    Duration: 06:37

  • Bakker Gardening Supplies

    The popular gardening site has hit financial problems.

    Duration: 04:58

  • Scottish Social Care

    Should England introduce free personal and nursing social care like in Scotland?

    Duration: 08:35

  • Instant Checkouts

    Will a new instant checkout scanner really take off at the tills?

    Duration: 06:04

  • The Lent Plastics Challenge

    Forget chocolate, the Church of England want us to give up plastic for Lent.

    Duration: 02:33

  • Gin-spiracy

    Mothers ruin is back in fashion, but are you really getting what you're paying for?

    Duration: 06:17

  • White Goods Fires

    Which? accuses Government of not doing enough to keep unsafe goods out of people's homes.

    Duration: 03:31

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  • Thu 15 Feb 2018 12:15

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