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The report concludes: “Where that demand is for the opportunity for inward investment, unless there is a rapid change in the required skills investment there is a considerable risk of damage to incumbent industry.”
We have introduced five successful rapid cancer diagnostic services, which are significantly reducing the time that is taken from referral to diagnosis for those with non-specific symptoms of cancer.
Some of our notices were delayed, which was purely down to the volume of work, the pressures that were placed on teams and the rapidity with which we were doing things, but we are all completely back to normal ways of working.
Nonetheless, as I said in my statement, I have commissioned a rapid review of current use of benzodiazepines, because we need to know or have better information about what is driving that.
With the powers that are proposed in the bill, we could have liaison officers or catchment inspectors who would be able to enter premises if we found significant inputs of something in the sewer system that should not be there.