Finally - Novacyt Mentioned by Name Re Setting Up Labs - Health and Social Care Secretary's statemen19 May 2021 19:09
Great to see that we did get a mention by name in this government speech.
I have copied an extract and attached the link with the full transcript.
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Han**** gave the 1 May 2020 daily press briefing on the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We brought together the best civil servants, the best minds from the private sector, the best scientists, the best lab technicians and the best of the best in the armed forces.
Setting stretching, ambitious goals in a crisis has a galvanising effect on everyone involved. It’s a mission. If we hadn’t been so bold, if we had chosen a safer, easier path, I just can’t see how we would have built the capacity that we need.
In a short few weeks, we’ve:
created a new test for the virus
built a network of regional testing centres
put a fleet of mobile testing units on the road
and created home testing kits, so if you can’t get to a test, we can get the test to you
We’ve more than doubled the capacity of NHS and Public Health England labs, and created 3 brand new mega-labs to analyse the results.
So many people have played a part in this work. British diagnostic companies like Randox and Oxford Nanopore and Medical Wire and DNANudge and Samba. Logistics companies like the Royal Mail and Yodel, who were brilliant and got us out of a real hole this week. Academics like Professor Derek Crook and Sir John Bell from Oxford, and Professor Ara Darzi from Imperial.
Deloitte and Boots who have delivered our drive-through centres, AstraZeneca, GSK and Novacyte, whose lab goes on stream next week, Public Health England and the NHS, of course, who pulled out all the stops. Professor Sharon Pea****, Professor John Newton And UK Biocentre and the Crick, who set up high-tech laboratories.
And also it wasn’t just a national effort. People from across the world ? including ThermoFisher, Hologic, Abbott and Amazon from the US, Qiagen from Germany and Roche from Switzerland.
And this is how we did it. Because everybody everyone worked together with grit and determination to reach a shared goal, and they thrived because the team contained a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds and, critically, a diversity of thought.
And when things went wrong, which they did every single day, believe me, we didn’t ask who we could blame – we asked how we could fix it.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/health-and-social-care-secretarys-statement-on-coronavirus-covid-19-1-may-2020
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