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HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdatePeople across Scotland who were listening to that will recognise that political point scoring is the opposite of what is needed right now and that instead the UK Government are…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateIf I may say so, Madam Deputy Speaker, I think my right hon. Friend would wear that tie if he were in the Chamber as well. He makes an important point about the future of…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateWe have set out the road map based on clinical advice. I am delighted to say that, because of the success of the vaccination programme so far, we are able to proceed down that…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateYes.18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateI am a pretty collegiate kind of guy and I generally see the best in people, and I see the best in the hon. Gentleman. One thing that I have really enjoyed about the vaccine…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateI am currently working with the NHS to answer that question, which is a characteristically acute one from my hon. Friend. We are not yet able to answer it simply because the pace…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateThe hon. Member is quite right to raise that; it is an incredibly important subject. Of course, those with disabilities have been recognised where they have clinical priority for…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateYes. We did fund the science from the start, and we worked collegiately to make that happen. I can confirm that there is no impact on the road map timetable from the news on…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateI am very happy to provide the hon. Lady with a briefing, because she should be very proud of her country. AstraZeneca is providing the Oxford vaccine free of charge—it is not…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateNo. What everybody in Salford and around the country needs to do is make sure that every last effort is made to reach every last person in groups 1 to 9, because they are the most…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateAbsolutely. The thing about the vaccine roll-out, the vaccine delivery, the purchase of vaccines and the scientific research into vaccines is that the whole thing has been a…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateI am sure the whole House will agree with every single word that my hon. Friend said. They say that success has many fathers, and Kettering has discovered another extraordinary…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateYes, this is an incredibly important subject and we are working very hard on it with clinical leads and external experts. I said earlier that success has many fathers, and I am…18 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Review into Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation OrdersThe Government are announcing today the publication of the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) report into the use of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateNo.18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateThat is absolutely our goal. The hon. Member is 29; I am 42. The fact is that we have to vaccinate an awful lot of people of our age to save the same amount of lives as…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateYes.18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateThe need to catch up on the backlog is there across all elective operations and of course that includes those for cancer. The good news is that the NHS has worked incredibly hard,…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateI highly, 100%, wholeheartedly agree with my right hon. Friend. The model that we established in the vaccines taskforce—of the holy trinity of business, academia and civil service…18 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateYes. People listening to the news over the past 24 hours might be surprised to hear this, but there are no changes to the prioritisation and no changes to planned appointments.…18 Mar 2021