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We all want to see the decline in cases continue, but I am daily concerned that a surfeit of confidence might mean that the necessary preparations for new variants or for a rapid deterioration of the situation were neglected.
BEMIS and the ethnic minority resilience network stepped in, in what I would call a rapid response, to provide financial support in partnership with the Scottish Government.
There might be cost aspects, particularly for a Government that is providing a free testing service with rapid antigen test or polymerase chain reaction tests.
I have had conversations in which I was told that not all the NHS vacancies could be filled at the moment and that more things need to be done with fewer people, which is about the rapid adoption of technology to help in that regard.
As well as being comprehensive, we have been rapid—and we still are rather rapid, even with the small increase in timescales that is related to the PACE process.