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HANSARDPandemic PreparednessAbsolutely. To respond to both this question and the earlier question from the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, the other things I would like to see the inquiry look at are the…15 Apr 2024HANSARDPandemic PreparednessExcuse me, but I think we will find that Britain was a world leader in developing a vaccine and making it available all round the world on a not-for-profit basis. If any noble…15 Apr 2024HANSARDPandemic PreparednessWe definitely look to work closely with our colleagues, and I have spoken to my Health Minister counterparts on this. One of the lessons from the pandemic was that you also need…15 Apr 2024HANSARDPandemic PreparednessThat is all a part of what I referred to as having a toolkit for a flexible response. The problem always in these things is that you tend to fight the next war on what happened in…15 Apr 2024HANSARDPandemic PreparednessI think our record in this speaks for itself. I am very proud of the action that we took as a Government to make sure that the AstraZeneca vaccine was prepared quickly, put in…15 Apr 2024HANSARDStroke TreatmentThat is what these SQuIRe centres are about—trying to roll out best practice. As I mentioned, I have seen fantastic examples, including simple things such as at Leighton Hospital,…27 Mar 2024HANSARDStroke TreatmentThe noble Baroness is right: carers are the hidden army who give so much support, not just in the area of strokes but across the board. As the noble Baroness said, we have put in…27 Mar 2024HANSARDStroke TreatmentThis AI service, Brainomix, is one of the ground-breaking services that are part of the future of the NHS. It is part of the whole service, which will include video triaging. It…27 Mar 2024HANSARDStroke TreatmentI thank the noble Baroness for her tireless work in this area. As she quite rightly points out, aftercare and rehabilitation is the vital third leg of the three-step process I…27 Mar 2024HANSARDStroke TreatmentThe noble Lord is quite right. Many noble Lords will have heard me echo Sir Chris Whitty’s words that his major concern about the whole Covid period was that people missed out on…27 Mar 2024HANSARDStroke TreatmentI am delighted to hear those good examples. As I say, we have had some very good results. The challenge is to ensure that everyone can have the sort of experience that the noble…27 Mar 2024HANSARDStroke TreatmentThe noble Lord is right to point that out, and I hope we are correcting it. I have seen the mobile app and digital being used to do all these things—I have even seen applications…27 Mar 2024HANSARDStroke TreatmentThe Government are taking three major steps to improve treatment and care for strokes: first, a whole series of prevention measures to help avoid a person having a stroke in the…27 Mar 2024HANSARDStroke TreatmentMy noble friend is correct that weight and obesity is a major factor in all sorts of conditions, including strokes. Encouraging people to eat correctly, in a healthy manner, is…27 Mar 2024HANSARDStroke TreatmentThe stroke quality improvement for rehabilitation—SQuIRe—services are where we are trying to take best practice from London, France and around the world and roll it out. The good…27 Mar 2024HANSARDSodium Valproate and Pelvic MeshThe 2025 date is the timetable that the Patient Safety Commissioner recommended in terms of financial redress. The point that the noble Baroness makes, quite rightly, is about the…25 Mar 2024HANSARDSodium Valproate and Pelvic MeshThe point I was making was that Minister Caulfield absolutely agreed with the point the noble Baroness makes that the delay had been too long, and so it was she who came forward…25 Mar 2024HANSARDSodium Valproate and Pelvic MeshI thank the noble Baroness. I was actually speaking to Minister Caulfield about this just this morning, because she is in regular touch with the affected patient groups. They were…25 Mar 2024HANSARDSodium Valproate and Pelvic MeshI thank the noble Baroness. I will provide the precise figures, but the incidence has gone down by 34% in terms of the amount that has been prescribed. At the same time—and this…25 Mar 2024HANSARDSodium Valproate and Pelvic MeshThe Government commissioned the Patient Safety Commissioner to produce a report on redress for those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. We are grateful to the…25 Mar 2024