Mr. Paul Reid:

Like Mr. Watt, I restate all of our commitments to reform. Something that is often missed is the level of reform that happened during Covid. Sometimes we might create the impression that everything was on hold. Pre-Covid, we did not have the number of community intervention teams that we have now. Before Covid, we did not have the chronic disease management teams at the level we have in the community now. We did not have access to diagnostics for 140,000 people by GPs outside of the hospital system, but we do now. We did not have a very different role for the National Ambulance Service, and for treating people at home and enhanced primary care. Likewise, we did not have a universal health service, which we had for vaccination and testing and tracing. We may be part of creating the impression that everything was put on hold, but it was not. I have seen more reform accelerated in the past two years than in the previous five or six years. Some credit must be given to our teams.