The Hard Shoulder this evening,
Newstalk Reporter Barry Whyte, who went to the border area of Strabane and Lifford said: “you can really see the disparity in the vaccine rollouts north and south in a border area like this.”
“In Strabane every second person you meet knows someone who has been vaccinated, while in Lifford, which is just two minutes across the border, nobody has yet received the vaccine.”
In the Western Health Social Care Trust area, which covers Derry, Strabane, Omagh and Fermanagh, 1,400 vaccines are being administered every day.
The area has a population of 300,000, so it is on course to have all adults vaccinated by the end of Summer.
The government’s standout conclusion from 12 months during which its Covid response has been widely questioned is that Matt Hancock should be empowered at the expense of the NHS’s leadership and, potentially, of parts of local government too.
This further indication that Boris Johnson’s administration is not well-endowed in self-analysis skills or critical reflection looms large in the draft of a health white paper which emerged last week. It also more positively contains warm noises about an enhanced focus on the integration of care and population health.
The white paper, leaked to the Health Policy Insight website, has been billed as finally laying to rest Andrew Lansley’s disastrous reforms set out in the Health & Social Care Act 2012 and does do this. The driving thrust is not competition but collaboration, largely brought about by the empowerment of integrated care systems as statutory bodies. So far so good. However, its remedy to most of the barriers to change that w
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
The Secretary of State for Health & Social Care joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky earlier to talk about new positive findings and possible light at the end of the tunnel.
On the Oxford Vaccine s latest study, Matt said: “It not only leads to no hospitalisations amongst those who ve had a jab in the group of 12,000 people that they ve studied so far, but also that it reduces transmission by about two thirds. So it stops the virus from spreading to a large degree, as well as protecting the individual.
According to Matt, the vaccine doesn t just protect you but stops the spread of the disease. He said: Now we ve got a very strong result on that, that it reduces that by about two thirds, which is really, really good news for getting out of this.
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