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We are even seeing people blocked in acute hospitals because we cannot get them discharged to extra-care housing, which is also closed to us at this time.
The approach that we have adopted is to provide online services to our communities—most of our services are now online. We also went the extra mile at the beginning of the pandemic.
I seek reassurance that the funding will not be taken from the smaller theatres to go to the larger ones to give them extra security. It is important to realise that theatre does not just take place in capitals and in large theatres.
There is a realisation that the matter needs to be resolved; if that requires an injection of extra resources, I expect that those will be made available.
As you know, we have to keep going with high-cost reactive services at the same time as trying to bring forward preventative measures. Somehow, we have to have extra money in the system to allow that to happen.
So, at the moment, the Government does not have any evidence base for saying what the extra cost would be, based on lower take-up of private, fee-paying education.