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Why, when the health secretary was very hopefully and enthusiastically saying that we could see a rapid reintroduction of elective caesarean sections over a year ago, are we now being told that it will be several more years before that happens?
That said, even with the additional support of the hospital liaison officer—our member of staff who works closely with accident and emergency—we depend on that flow through.
Such contingency arrangements allowed the rapid roll-out of testing for the novel coronavirus in Scotland following the development of a new laboratory test by colleagues in the Respiratory Virus team in the Health Protection Agency (Colindale).
The scientific advice that all four Governments in the United Kingdom received yesterday shows that we are now on the cusp of a rapid escalation in the spread of Covid-19.