Covid-19

Bob Blackman Excerpts
Monday 16th March 2020

(4 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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The public health budget is going up and pharmacists are an incredibly important part of the NHS family.

Bob Blackman Portrait Bob Blackman (Harrow East) (Con)
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The people most seriously at risk are those with underlying conditions. Will the public health agenda being published promote how people can minimise those conditions—for example, by giving up smoking and leading a healthier life—so that we can minimise the number of serious cases that are seen by the NHS?

Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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That is absolutely right. It is abundantly clear from the research into previous coronaviruses that smoking makes the impact of a coronavirus worse.