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Administration Administration Coronavirus Coronavirus

Establish a Standing Committee on Pandemics

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...we will also establish a Standing Committee on Pandemics, bringing together scientists and clinicians to advise us on the future risks and to ensure we are as prepared as it is possible to be…

SNP Manifesto 2021, p.11

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This promise has been achieved. In August 2021 the Scottish Government announced that a group of experts had been appointed to a new Standing Committee on Pandemics to advise the administration on future pandemic preparedness.

“Future pandemic preparedness group established” (Scottish Government, 19th August 2021)