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If anything, during Covid, we had some rapid discharges from hospitals into care facilities and we are now looking back and being a little bit reticent about those decisions.
Part of the discussion is about who bears the risk of such rapid change. We are in a context in which, too often, the risk falls on the individual worker to upskill and invest in their upskilling, sometimes in actual hard cash.
It has been encouraging to hear the discussion, but it is difficult for GPs to keep up with rapid systems change. Third sector organisations and access to them are changing all the time.
My party has already offered ideas on that, including rapid retraining courses, especially in the digital sector, and job security councils to provide meaningful opportunities.
He also stated: “We are seeing a rapid increase in customers using digital channels to engage with us, and in our experience, once customers start to engage differently they do not go back.”
As a consequence, vast regions of the world experiencing a rapid rise in COVID cases and deaths are unable to access vaccines, which are our primary route out of the pandemic.