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She is absolutely right: it is important that we hear from those organisations and that we listen to the voice of lived experience as we take forward the recovery framework for pain management services.
That two-months change is due to the difficulty of having a benefit go live during the Covid pandemic. That does not mean that we are not serious about our responsibility to ensure that we support low-income families.
It is now exactly 100 days since the first cases of coronavirus were reported in Wuhan and, in that time, our lives have been transformed in ways that would have been unimaginable just a few weeks ago.
I want to be clear that people—anybody, of any age, no matter where they are living—should get the care that is right for them, and if that means their being in hospital, that is where they should be.
It is important that we listen to the lived experience of patients and patients’ relatives, and we will continue to do that in good faith and in all sincerity.
However, the EIS and the Further Education Lecturers Association view the cost-of-living uplift as distinct from the harmonisation deal, while employers obviously take a different view.