Ms Magdalen Rogers:

That is a small-scale piece. We are a very small organisation and this is a piece of work we are undertaking. It is more of a qualitative piece of work. We want to talk to patients and we want to talk to clinicians on the front line. We can all read waiting lists and neurology waiting lists, which we can access very easily, but we want to get a sense of whether there is a hidden impact, which we are hearing about directly from patients themselves and also from the organisations we represent. How does one measure someone who has deconditioned due to not being able to have their physiotherapy and their speech and language therapy during the pandemic? How do we measure the effects of isolation, loneliness and anxiety? It is more of a qualitative project, but we are certainly very willing to share the findings with the committee when they are available. We hope it will be later on this year when we have the findings.

For us, the ongoing implementation of the neuro-rehabilitation strategy is really of significant concern for us at the moment. We are concerned that there has been an impact from Covid and it is not being examined or looked at effectively because the strategy is not up and running as it should be.