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HANSARDRespiratory Syncytial VirusI thank the noble Baroness for her question. I am pleased to say that there are promising new vaccinations. The current vaccination unfortunately requires monthly injections,…19 Jan 2023HANSARDTimes Health CommissionI agree with the noble Lord that data has to be the basis of any decision-making. I know that early drafts of the workforce strategy have already been formed so he and the House…19 Jan 2023HANSARDOsteoporosis: Early DetectionI agree with my noble friend that prevention is always better than cure. The beauty of these processes is that I get to swot up, and I learned that the second largest bed-intake…19 Jan 2023HANSARDOsteoporosis: Early DetectionThe noble Lord refers to the fracture liaison services. It is the responsibility of all ICBs to roll out those services or their equivalent. Regarding the numbers that he cited, I…19 Jan 2023HANSARDOsteoporosis: Early DetectionOne of the many things for which I am responsible is NHS performance, as I think the House is aware, and these are exactly the sorts of issues that I am interested in, so I am…19 Jan 2023HANSARDOsteoporosis: Early DetectionI thank the noble Lord. As I say, part of the beauty of this job is being educated. I will take that back to my officials and query them on my briefing.19 Jan 2023HANSARDOsteoporosis: Early DetectionI thank the noble Baroness for bringing this to my attention. Clearly a 28% reduction is impressive and something that we should take seriously. If she can give me the reference,…19 Jan 2023HANSARDOsteoporosis: Early DetectionAs a player of rugby, which probably has far too many impacts, I agree with the sentiment that exercise is always a good thing, whatever stage of life one is at. Also, we all know…19 Jan 2023HANSARDRespiratory Syncytial VirusPCRs test are already in use to diagnose RSV and monitor its prevalence. Current RSV immunisation is targeted at infants at high risk of severe complications. New immunisation…19 Jan 2023HANSARDTimes Health CommissionMy Lords—19 Jan 2023HANSARDTimes Health CommissionI thank noble Lords. It is not quite the same as scoring a hat trick in football, but I will take the Order Paper home with pleasure. We welcome the Times Health Commission’s…19 Jan 2023HANSARDUnited Kingdom: Future PandemicsPPE is an example of where we all agree that we could have done better, to say the least. At this stage, I should declare an interest in that I set up a Covid testing company—not…16 Jan 2023HANSARDUnited Kingdom: Future PandemicsI know that the use of masks in hospital is being debated as we speak, to make sure that we are prepared for any new eventuality. As we are aware, 9,000 beds being taken up by…16 Jan 2023HANSARDUnited Kingdom: Future PandemicsI agree with my noble friend that some of the lessons learned from all this are around consequences of lockdown that we had not quite imagined. Clearly, the impacts on mental…16 Jan 2023HANSARDUnited Kingdom: Future PandemicsWe have deployed our sequencing capability to the benefit of the whole world. Some 50% of the variants were discovered on these shores using our capability, and we were the first…16 Jan 2023HANSARDUnited Kingdom: Future PandemicsMy Lords, we cannot perfectly predict the characteristics of a new pandemic pathogen, and therefore pandemic preparedness is an area kept under review. The UK has flexible and…16 Jan 2023HANSARDUnited Kingdom: Future PandemicsOur approach to this has been led by the science. As the House is aware, we set up the UK Health Security Agency precisely to make sure that we have a team of experts in place…16 Jan 2023HANSARDUnited Kingdom: Future PandemicsI agree. There are many examples of where centrally run initiatives did not work so well, test and trace being one. That is what the inquiry is all about. There are many examples…16 Jan 2023HANSARDUnited Kingdom: Future PandemicsGiven the detailed nature of the question on sequencing, it probably deserves a detailed response. I will happily write on that. The 100 Days Mission—to deploy effective…16 Jan 2023HANSARDUnited Kingdom: Future PandemicsAs previously mentioned, there were many things that we did not get right. The whole reason that we set up the UK Health Security Agency was because we were not happy with the…16 Jan 2023