Mr. Paul Reid:

I will restate some of my comments that across all of the 1,350 GP practices we have worked quite extensively with, the first two weeks went extremely well with the suppliers, the deliverables and the consumables. In the third week, which was last week, across a smaller number of GP practices we fully acknowledge that there were issues not just in the smaller practices but also in the bigger practices. We have put in place a whole range of supports to address that. There is more engagement directly to the contact centre with more weekly bulletins to go out to them. There is more clarity on what they can expect and on what days. Where issues have emerged when consumables do not arrive in a timely fashion we are addressing this also. There have been a number of issues but overall, of the 90,000 people who have been vaccinated in the over-80s and over-70s age groups across 1,350 GP practices, it has gone really well. We acknowledge there were issues last week across a number of practices. We have put in a whole set of arrangements to strengthen that process and we will move on.