Chris Thomas: The Government needs a plan to substantiate its ambitious rhetoric on health reforms

The second in a mini-series of articles on ConHome this week about healthcare after Covid.

WATCH: Government scientific adviser “nervous about a full relaxation in June”

Woolhouse adds that the “idea we can suddenly emerge in one great bound is a little over-optimistic.”

Raghib Ali: Why it’s now time to unite behind the roadmap

It gives us the best chance of avoiding a third wave, a fourth lockdown and of getting our lives back to normal as quickly as possible.

Graham Jones: What pharmacies need to help them further improve the nation’s health

Our network provides an in-person first point of health contact for millions, and play a central role in the vaccination programme.

Dan Boucher: Labour’s stewardship of the NHS in Wales has been disastrous. Come May, it’s time for a Conservative administration.

Health is one of the most pressing issues to get right in the upcoming Welsh Parliament elections.

William Prescott: Australia is starting to reach the limits of what its coronavirus strategy can do

It has faired much better than the mother country. But far from delivering ‘Zero Covid’, the costs of international isolation are unsustainable.

Stephen O’Brien: The challenge of converting world-class research into British economic success. Here’s an example than works.

We should double down on Product Development Partnerships, which are alive and well in the field of public health.

Sarah Ingham: Corbyn and his gang could scarcely have handled coronavirus worse than the Government

The public elected a Conservative Government, but they didn’t get one.

WATCH: Drakeford attacks the Government over the laxity of the border quarantine programme

The First Minister of Wales claims that ministers have done “the least they can get away with rather than the most that is needed”.

WATCH: ‘A lot of reason to be optimistic we’ll be in a much better place in two-to-four weeks’ time’, says Professor

“Three weeks after a first vaccine there’s 67% protection”, adds Tim Spector as he talks up the prospect of gradually easing restrictions.

Andrew Murrison: I voted for lockdown. But the choice between saving lives and losing freedom is hard.

The NHS tells us that each year 78,000 people die from smoking in the UK. But we don’t ban smoking.

WATCH: Burnham calls for areas with lower life expectancy to get priority in the vaccine rollout

The Mayor of Greater Manchester also calls for ‘greater flexibility’ to protect those exposed at work such as bus and taxi drivers.

WATCH: ‘This is a great lesson for the rest of the world. Thank you. Thank you British scientists.’

WHO special envoy says it is “wonderful” that the UK’s “bravery” in spacing out vaccine doses “seems to be associated with even greater protection”.

WATCH: Professor urges people not to over-state the ‘reduced efficacy’ of Oxford jab against new strain

Sarah Gilbert, the lead researcher, says that “there is still protection against deaths, hospitalisations and severe disease” from the South African variant.

WATCH: Zahawi – Government ‘very concerned’ about low vaccine take-up in some communities

“If one particular community remains unvaccinated then the virus will seek them out and go through that community like wildfire”, says vaccines minister.