The real capacity problem is that up to 25 per cent of patients in hospital beds need not be there. We must improve access to social care.
Those in insecure employment have been some of the worst affected by Plan B and other measures.
They will see both clinical and non-clinical staff supplement full-time workers during times of high demand.
Geographical and demographic differences make it impossible to decide who ‘won’ the battle with Coronavirus.
“If the experts… deem it appropriate that you can have two negative tests… that’s a good thing to keep under review”, he says.
‘Absolutely not’, says the Education Secretary, when asked about a newspaper report stating this would happen.
Private healthcare should be an option for the many, not just the few. The Government should make this option more affordable.
Calling the unjabbed ‘idiots’, as Blair recently did, and coercing them into action is not the way forward.
He said that we cannot vaccinate the population every six months. Ostensibly this sounded like bad news, but his message was, overall, a positive one.
Any solution to the divide between authority to order lockdowns and responsibility for paying for it must mean more accountability, not less.
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And there is an even stronger motive: the fear that the magic of the Prime Minister could deliver another Tory general election victory too.