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Thank you.

Is the correlation with the fact that they were unvaccinated or with the strain of the virus that they caught? Are you able to discriminate?

Janet Scott—my apologies, I forgot your name for a second—how are we doing as a country? I am taking the point of view of a patient with long Covid who goes to their GP. How are we doing as a country in getting those people on the right pathway?

Professor Robertson, did you say whether, in the data that you were looking at, you tried to discriminate whether people were more likely to get long Covid if they had been vaccinated as opposed to if they had not?

How do we sort it? Perhaps I should have started with that question.

Okay. I am sorry—it was just a thought that came into my head when you gave the previous answer.

Is there enough connectedness between all the research that is going on so that it feeds back into the system for practitioners to use? Is everything that you guys are doing getting to the guys who actually see people who are sitting in waiting rooms?

Edward Duncan, I will ask you a quick question. Did your research find anything about whether a single point of contact was desirable?

Thanks very much for coming. I will try to mop up a bit here, but first I will come back to you about the reaction from GPs. It sounds very similar to the reaction from GPs to women who go to them about menopause. Some doctors say, “You’ll get over it. It is just a change in your life”, but others say, “Let’s take this seriously” and go through a whole process. Who monitors the reactions of GPs to patients who go to them and say, “I have a problem”, and is there any recourse for a patient who says, “My doctor is just not taking this seriously”?

So—

I will make one comment. It is not a question; it is a comment. What concerned me about the evidence that we got last week from the CCC was the use of the word “probably” in relation to reducing the amount of greenhouse gas that is being sequestered.

I have a question for Martin Kennedy. We are talking about uncertainty in future policy. You have said in the past that 97 per cent of the funding comes from the UK Government. If that stops in 2024 or if there is no certainty about it, where do you see us going?