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Freedom of Information requests to the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, May 2021

31 May 202131 May 2021 allysonpollockcovid-19, freedom of Information, SARS-CoV-2 testing

1            Further authorisation of Innova LFTs I note that MHRA’s ‘authorisation of special use of DHSC COVID-19 Self-Test Kit’ dated 22 December 2020 states that “If this authorisation ends on 22/06/2021, and there continues to be a need for a…

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Letter to Infected Blood Inquiry, 27 May 2021

28 May 202128 May 2021 allysonpollockUncategorized

To the Secretary, Infected Blood Inquiry Thank you for your letter of 26 May 2021. I am disappointed by your position to deny access to the public hearings, and by your reasoning. As you correctly state, the MHRA authorises (Innova)…

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Misuse of lateral flow tests

24 May 202124 May 2021 allysonpollockUncategorized

An email sent to Dr June Raine, chief executive of the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency23 May 2021 Dear Dr June Raine, I am writing to draw your attention to the ways in which the government is expanding the…

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Latest articles and publications

Waiting times and admissions policies in England and Scotland before and after privatisation of services for elective surgery in England

Lessons for Ontario Canada: the privatisation of elective surgery for hips, knees, and cataracts in England compared with Scotland

The struggles that led to the unwise demise of the Public Health Laboratory Service, 1979–2003, in the context of changing economic policy

Areas of interest

Sports injury & injury epidemiology

Regulatory science & pharmaceuticals

Essential medicines

Public inquiries – infected blood and covid-19

NHS reforms

Health and Care Bill 2021-22

PFI & PPPs

Covid-19

Unpublished papers

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A rare instance of France doing the right thing: this resolution would effectively launder a US-Israel unilateral war of aggression into a multilateral UN mandate, which is completely egregious.

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Public speaking

• Keynote address: waiting times, inequality and the role of the independent sector
NHS Waiting List Conference, London
Date: 10-11 June 2026
• Instruments to diagnose depression: the studies underpinning Global Burden of Disease estimates. Evidence Based Early Diagnosis 2024: Exploring new diagnostics – big promise, big challenge. University of St Andrews, 30 May 2024.
• Our NHS: waiting lists and waiting times. Church of Scotland, 12 Chapel St, Carlisle CA1 1AJ, 2:30pm, 26 July 2025
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Recent posts

  • Oration for the Edinburgh Medal 2024: Mario Negri Institute
  • Email to Hugo Keith KC, 30 May 2023
  • As covid continues its tour of Europe, what is the public health evidence for covid passes? 02 December 2021
  • Mandatory vaccination will not make care home residents safe from covid, it is unnecessary, and data underpinning the government’s case is unreliable
  • Health and Care Bill 2021-22

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