Social care crisis, Faster checkouts, Gin

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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 £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 £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.