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Yesterday was my last day as @TheSCoSS Chair. Public appointees are rightly constrained in what they can say publicly. Now I'm not, there’s a lot I want to say on a lot of things! Thought I’d start with a wee🧵on personal reflections on my time with SCoSS & things to look out for
It’s been an extraordinary time since @TheSCoSS opened for business early 2019. Scottish social security barely existed except on paper. It’s sprung to life & learnt to walk, last week taking its biggest step yet with Adult Disability Payment replacing PIP.
It’s been an honour to play a part in creating a new Scottish system based on dignity, fairness & respect – qualities regrettably absent from social security elsewhere - & a rare joy to work on something with real scope to have a meaningful positive impact on people’s lives.
Dear @HumzaYousaf @DrGregorSmith @JasonLeitch @JohnHardenED Yesterday you published evidence you claim ‘clearly’ shows vaccines/new medicines mean there’s no need to retain the Highest Clinical Risk list, It’s far from clear to me. Please confirm my understanding 🧵
Evidence on vaccine efficacy consists of incomplete summaries of studies measuring different things using different methods, & includes studies that haven’t been peer reviewed. As you say “Many studies in this annotated bibliography will have several limitations”. Yes they do.
As for people added to the List by GPs – the 2nd biggest group, nearly 1/3 of people on the Highest Risk List, 50,778 people, it says: “Due to the range of conditions within this group, little research has been carried out on this specific group”. What there is looks dire.
