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Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
17 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny (Resilience and Emergency Planning)
Thanks, convener. As Professor Leitch was about to say, in planning for an influenza pandemic—and the WHO checklist is for influenza pandemic preparedness planning—the point is precisely that you must have those core elements, which is why I read them out in my opening stateme...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
07 May 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny
Exercise Cygnus was entirely focused on the situation in England. Scotland had exercise Silver Swan in 2015, which pre-dated Cygnus but was also focused on a pandemic flu situation. At that time, flu was globally considered as the most likely infection to create a pandemic. Al...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
07 May 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny
I think that what it is fair to say is that the pandemic planning that was undertaken across the UK was for a coronavirus; flu is a coronavirus. This particular coronavirus is about 140 days old. All of our knowledge of it, from when it first emerged—what it is like, how infec...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
28 Apr 2020
Health (Covid-19)
Thank you for the opportunity to update Parliament on several key areas around our response to Covid-19 and to say something about our future planning. Today is international workers memorial day and, across Scotland, many people observed a minute’s silence to honour the heal...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
16 Feb 2021
Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
I will make three points. The first is about the NRAC formula. We touched on that last week and discussed whether there is a case for reviewing the formula. I made it clear that I think that there is a case for doing so. That will be a lengthy exercise and will be one for the...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Committee
17 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny (Resilience and Emergency Planning)
Thank you, and good morning, convener and colleagues. I am grateful for the invitation to attend the committee to discuss our resilience and emergency planning arrangements for pandemics and other emergency situations. I start by recording my continuing thanks for the respon...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
17 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny (Resilience and Emergency Planning)
I will make two important points and then I will bring in Mr Connaghan. First, I make no apology for repeating myself by saying that we are still in the middle of a pandemic. It has not gone away; it is still there. Our NHS is therefore still responding to that pandemic, as am...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
19 Aug 2020
Health
Today I want to set out work that is under way to remobilise our health services. In doing so I want to be clear about the factors that will necessarily limit our capacity to mobilise in the immediate term to the extent that we—and patients across Scotland—would wish. However...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
01 Sep 2020
Care Homes
I will touch on a number of issues regarding care homes and will say more about the commitment that the First Minster has outlined in the programme for government. We have discussed and debated the situation in our care homes many times during the months of the Covid pandemic...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
28 Oct 2020
NHS (Winter Preparedness)
The rise in positive tests for Covid-19 confirms not only that the pandemic is still with us but that the virus will seize any opportunity to spread. Today, I will set out the steps that we are taking to prepare our NHS to respond to that and to wider winter pressures. Earl...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
04 Nov 2020
Care Homes
I do not agree with the member’s characterisation of that as incautious. I believe that we did what we believed to be right at the time with the resources that were available to us, and we changed that. Yes, about two thirds of individuals who were discharged went into the com...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
09 Feb 2021
Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
Before the pandemic, quite a lot of work was under way to look at set-aside budgets and their operation with individual partnerships where that was a particular issue, such as the Fife partnership. All that work had to be slowed down—and, arguably, halted—for a number of month...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
03 Mar 2021
Primary Care
Thank you, Presiding Officer, for your generosity. I welcome the report. Before I talk about it, I thank the members of the Health and Sport Committee with whom I have had the privilege of working—in particular, Mr Macdonald, the convener. I have found our engagement construc...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
03 Mar 2021
Primary Care
I am afraid that I am going to disappoint Mr Whittle in that, in the time that I have available, I will not be able to go through all the plans. However, I will happily do that on another day. I start with what I did not say in my opening speech on the question of data, which...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
17 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny (Resilience and Emergency Planning)
A number of objectives that existed before the pandemic but had not been completely achieved have been achieved and secured during our response to the pandemic, in a very short space of time. That has been partly to do with how we have delivered healthcare. One such area is th...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
17 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny (Resilience and Emergency Planning)
I am sure that Mr Briggs has read the framework carefully. There is a recovery group with all the key stakeholders, which I will chair. I will be writing to the convener with more details on that, and it will meet before the end of this month. 10:30 The framework document ...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
25 Jun 2020
Portfolio Question Time · Covid-19 (Lessons)
Although we are still responding to the current pandemic, lessons are being learned and captured as we go—for example, on the supply and distribution of personal protective equipment across health and social care. A lessons-learned process for regional resilience partnerships ...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Committee
29 Sep 2020
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
Thank you, convener, for your flexibility in accommodating my attendance. As members know, last week’s events and announcements required reprioritisation of time. I thank Joe FitzPatrick for attending last week’s meeting and answering the committee’s questions, in my place. B...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Committee
30 Sep 2020
Covid-19 Framework for Decision Making and Scotland’s Route Map
Good morning. I am grateful for the opportunity to be with you this morning. I know that you are all acutely aware that we are now six months into this country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. We have asked a very great deal of people who live in Scotland, requiring the...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
03 Nov 2020
Winter Preparedness in Social Care
Every winter, our social care and health systems face significant pressures from seasonal flu and norovirus, but this year the Covid-19 pandemic magnifies those challenges as never before. Last week, I set out how we will support our national health service to respond, and to...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
04 Nov 2020
Care Homes
Covid-19 is a cruel virus that is particularly dangerous for the most elderly and vulnerable in our society. In the first wave, as we have heard, the lives of over 2,000 care home residents were lost. That is devastating for their loved ones and for the staff who cared for the...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Committee
09 Feb 2021
Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
I am grateful for the opportunity to give evidence on the budget proposals for our health and care services. As Kate Forbes said in Parliament, the 2021-22 budget is delivered in “exceptional circumstances” that require and have required an “exceptional response”. The budget ...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
16 Feb 2021
Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
Absolutely, it will. The member will be well aware of all the different areas in which resourcing has gone into mental health. It has not been possible to see the total impact of some of that. For example, we have not seen the full impact of the preventative spend on counsell...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
17 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny (Resilience and Emergency Planning)
As you said, exercise Iris identified 13 action points, which covered guidance, specialist facilities, provision of PPE and contact tracing. The Scottish health protection network has been leading work to follow up on the actions from the exercise as part of wider work on prep...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
17 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny (Resilience and Emergency Planning)
You made a number of points. I will do my best to be as brief as I can be and, if I may, I will bring in John Connaghan, as chief exec of the NHS, on the important point about the diagnostic backlog to get a response to that on the record. Community Pharmacy Scotland was one ...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
17 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny (Resilience and Emergency Planning)
A number of additional mental health supports have been introduced during the pandemic. One of those, the Clear Your Head campaign, will continue for some time, helping all of us to look after our own mental health and wellbeing. Some support services have been delivered in a ...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
28 Jul 2020
Subordinate Legislation
That is a very important area. I share your view that the pandemic has highlighted a number of issues in the provision of adult social care, some of which the Government had begun to work on in advance of the pandemic. It was necessary to pause that work to some degree, but th...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
29 Sep 2020
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
We had made good progress towards delivering more than half of spend to our primary and community health services in this financial year. We had got to 49.7 per cent of funding in 2018-19. The figures for 2019-20 have been delayed, but we expect them early next year. We were m...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
09 Feb 2021
Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
Again, Richard might want to say a bit more about that. We have conducted almost continuous reviews of lessons learned across all the areas of the health portfolio, with boards, integration authorities and other key stakeholders, including our partners in local government. We ...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
16 Feb 2021
Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
That is a very good question. The approach is already under way. Richard McCallum and his team are in regular discussion with boards—during the pandemic but in the normal course as well—about their financial performance, as indeed are the chief operating officer and the chief ...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
03 Mar 2020
Covid-19 Update
On Sunday, we had confirmation of the first case in Scotland of novel coronavirus Covid-19. The patient is from Tayside and has a travel history. Although the patient is clinically well, they are being cared for in hospital in Scotland, as a precautionary measure. I am sure th...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
05 May 2020
Topical Question Time · Covid-19 (Testing in Care Homes)
I need to make two points. It is correct, as Ms Johnstone asserts, that we know that asymptomatic individuals shed virus, but the level of virus is not clear at this point. At the start of the pandemic about 130 to 140 days ago, we did not know that asymptomatic individuals sh...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
07 May 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny
That is, to a degree, what we are now doing. We are securing the supply of PPE and centrally distributing it to the social care sector, to the primary and community care sector and to the acute setting. Our responsibility—my responsibility—is to the NHS. No one other than Gove...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
19 May 2020
Topical Question Time · Contact Tracing (Confidentiality)
All of us have the benefit of hindsight. With the information that we had at the time, I believe that we took the right decision. However, I recognise the competing calls on protecting patient confidentiality and letting the public know, particularly in relation to this virus ...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
19 May 2020
Care Homes
Today I want to set out the steps that we have taken, including the additional action that we set out at the weekend and yesterday, to support residents and staff in care homes across Scotland as they deal with the impact and challenges of Covid-19. Although the majority of p...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
19 May 2020
Care Homes
As I am sure that the member knows, many of our care homes survive financially on the same basis as some of those that do not. The standards that are required are the standards that are required, and we have already discussed what needs to be done in circumstances in which car...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
19 May 2020
Care Homes
As the member said, he is talking about a hypothesis. I would be very careful about suggesting that our clinicians at any level in primary or acute care chose not to provide any patient with the appropriate clinical care for any reason at all. Our chief medical officer has bee...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
21 May 2020
Urgent Question · Untested Patients in Care Homes (Inverclyde)
There were two primary reasons for the improvement in reducing the number of delayed discharges. At least one of those reasons is reflected in our health service, where we have secured improvements, for example in the use of digital technology, in a shorter period than we had ...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
27 May 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny
That is right, convener. Testing was not considered, and my understanding is that that is because the exercise was focused on influenza. That was the case because all the international evidence pointed to the strong likelihood that, if we were to face a pandemic, it would be a...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
02 Jun 2020
Resuming National Health Services
I take Mr Findlay’s point; I do not want us just to return to normal, which is why the document that I have published talks not only about remobilising and recovering but about redesign. I will go on to talk a little about some of the significant changes in service and care de...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Committee
04 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny
I thank the committee for the opportunity to be with it to answer questions. I am conscious of the time, so I will be brief. I am sure that members have a number of questions. It is important for me to say at the outset that the Scottish Government and I have been clear about...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
09 Jun 2020
Topical Question Time · Covid-19 (Publication of Figures)
In publishing unvalidated data, I was attempting to be helpful. It is a lesson that I have now learned. I say to Mr Briggs that I apologise to every single person who has lost a loved one as part of the pandemic. I think that we should all do that. Every single day, when we a...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
09 Jun 2020
Topical Question Time · Covid-19 (Publication of Figures)
I absolutely agree with Ms Lennon that none of this arguing back and forth will bring back people who have died as a result of the pandemic, whether as a result of nosocomial infection or of the impact of the virus on them in another regard. That is a huge matter of regret. I...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
17 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Scrutiny (Resilience and Emergency Planning)
I am certainly happy that we consider that as we look at what more we need to do in terms of future pandemic planning. I make the additional point that, as you will know, thanks to my colleague Mr McKee, as our Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation, we have now succes...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Committee
28 Jul 2020
Subordinate Legislation
Good morning. This is my first appearance before the COVID-19 Committee, and I am grateful for the opportunity to be here. I will be brief, because I am sure that members have a number of questions to put to me and my colleagues. The Coronavirus (Scotland) (No 2) Act 2020 is ...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
28 Jul 2020
Subordinate Legislation
Since 19 March, I think, care homes have been eligible to receive and have been receiving personal protective equipment directly from our NHS procurement service. When it comes to the stockpile and the volume of equipment that the procurement service holds, it is now much bett...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
11 Aug 2020
Covid-19
Oh, good. Even without a microphone, my mother said that I had a voice that could sell coal, so I think that we will be fine. As Ms Lennon knows, I am committed to transparency. We publish a great deal of information and, in advance of it being publicly available, it is possi...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
19 Aug 2020
Health
I am grateful to Mr Torrance for asking a very important question. My colleague Ms Haughey, who is sitting beside me, has been busy producing and agreeing a remobilisation plan for our mental health services, in order to build on some of the innovative ways of delivering menta...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
25 Aug 2020
Topical Question Time · Delayed Discharge into Care Homes
Mr Rennie is right that all those issues require big decisions and need to be scrutinised thoroughly. As the First Minister and I have said more than once, we know that there will need to be a public inquiry into the entire handling of the pandemic in Scotland—I expect that th...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
25 Aug 2020
Topical Question Time · Delayed Discharge into Care Homes
Nobody—not me, the First Minister or any other member of the Government—is suggesting that clinicians, care home workers, social workers or even patients themselves are somehow to blame for what happened. Interruption. No, I am explaining to Ms Lennon how delayed discharge wor...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
25 Aug 2020
Topical Question Time · Cancer Services
From the outset of our response to the pandemic, we prioritised emergency and urgent care, including cancer services, which have remained in place throughout the pandemic. Although some treatment plans have changed to minimise individual risk, cancer surgery in Scotland is cur...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP Chamber
27 Aug 2020
Portfolio Question Time · Covid-19 (Health Inequalities)
We are taking a number of actions but, for the sake of brevity, I will list only two or three. The first is the setting up of the independent expert reference group on Covid-19 and ethnicity, which brings together experts, representative groups and academics in that field to ...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
01 Sep 2020
Care Homes
Ms Lennon asked a number of questions, which I will try to answer. I thank her for her good wishes and, just for the record, I will say that I am no away yet. I have a lot of work still to do, and a lot of energy to give to it. I do not accept that we have failed to listen. I...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
29 Sep 2020
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
As, I think, Mr Fitzpatrick explained to the committee last week, we remain in a fluid situation in terms of anticipated demand. For example, we are modelling demand for personal protective equipment for the coming months through to the end of this financial year on the basis ...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
29 Sep 2020
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
The hybrid model is in place in recognition of the fact that the impact of the pandemic has differed for different boards. Some boards have been disproportionately more impacted in responding to the pandemic than others. The NRAC formula exists and is agreed. It provides a deg...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
29 Sep 2020
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
It is a good point. The hubs and assessment centres were stood up in order to create a Covid-safe route—a non-Covid route—via the GP for people’s healthcare needs. It was a successful attempt by us to ensure that people who had healthcare needs could continue to be seen and tr...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
29 Sep 2020
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
Mr McCallum might be able to help here. As I indicated earlier, there is a degree of saving to be made if we stop doing elective work, for example, and redeploy staff into other areas. We know what the cost of dealing with a pandemic has been so far—our quarter 1 conclusion ha...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
29 Sep 2020
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2021-22
Pre-pandemic, a number of our national boards looked at combining their finance and HR services and so on into a single operation. There was more work to be done on that but, inevitably, the pandemic paused a great deal of it, because we asked boards to focus on responding to ...
Jeane Freeman SNP Committee
30 Sep 2020
Covid-19 Framework for Decision Making and Scotland’s Route Map
The £1.1 billion has been calculated on the basis of two elements. The first element is each individual health board’s additional quarter 1 expenditure on measures that were necessary in order to respond to the pandemic and on each health and social care partnership’s evidence...
Jeane Freeman SNP Chamber
08 Oct 2020
Reducing Covid-19 Transmission
Yes, it is, but it is not about causality—I think that we have gone through that before—and our system is track and protect, not track and trace. The track and protect system has demonstrated an incidence of between 20 and 26 per cent, among those who followed through on that ...
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Health and Sport Committee 17 June 2020

17 Jun 2020 · S5 · Health and Sport Committee
Item of business
Covid-19 Scrutiny (Resilience and Emergency Planning)
Freeman, Jeane SNP Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Watch on SPTV
Thanks, convener. As Professor Leitch was about to say, in planning for an influenza pandemic—and the WHO checklist is for influenza pandemic preparedness planning—the point is precisely that you must have those core elements, which is why I read them out in my opening statement. The core elements are the foundation on which any pandemic planning must rest. The key is then to have the flexibility to adapt that to the particular virus or infection that you are confronting. As Professor Leitch said, compared to influenza, which was previously considered to be the highest risk for a global pandemic, the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic is considerable. Those foundations of pandemic planning are contained in our resilience planning in Scotland—and in the rest of the UK—and they have allowed us to respond as quickly as we have and to adapt to what we face. Undoubtedly, there are lessons for us to learn from that for our future pandemic and resilience planning, and I am happy to indicate what some of those lessons might be in due course. We will have lessons that we need to learn, as will our regional and local resilience partnerships. They will want to feed things into us so that, in our next iteration of pandemic planning, we will have learned from the current situation, which has to be one of the largest-scale pandemic exercises—and one that is real—that we have had to deal with. 09:30

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The Convener (Lewis Macdonald) Lab
Good morning, and welcome to the 17th meeting in 2020 of the Health and Sport Committee. We have received apologies from Emma Harper, and we are joined by Bo...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Jeane Freeman) SNP
Thank you, and good morning, convener and colleagues. I am grateful for the invitation to attend the committee to discuss our resilience and emergency planni...
The Convener Lab
Thank you, cabinet secretary. I will start by asking about some of the work that has been done over recent years to prepare for an event such as this pandemi...
Jeane Freeman SNP
As you said, exercise Iris identified 13 action points, which covered guidance, specialist facilities, provision of PPE and contact tracing. The Scottish hea...
The Convener Lab
I am glad that Dr Smith wrote to local authorities and health and social care partnerships. Looking at the exercises in the round, it strikes me how little i...
Jeane Freeman SNP
Health and social care partnerships are not designated as first or second responders in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, which governs the overall structure...
The Convener Lab
I look forward to receiving some of the detail that you mention. One of the Iris report recommendations was in relation to the Scottish Government resilience...
Jeane Freeman SNP
The role of our resilience unit has strengthened over that time in the sense of its being a core of expertise and knowledge about resilience planning for a n...
The Convener Lab
Thank you, cabinet secretary.
Alex Cole-Hamilton (Edinburgh Western) (LD) LD
Good morning, cabinet secretary. In the Silver Swan report, the Scottish Government acknowledged that a global pandemic would represent the single most disru...
Jeane Freeman SNP
Undoubtedly, the feedback would have been passed to Government, and it would have been factored into how we attempted to manage resource pressures and priori...
Alex Cole-Hamilton LD
Thank you. I am glad that you mentioned the WHO checklist. I have it in front of me. It is called “A checklist for pandemic influenza risk and impact managem...
Jeane Freeman SNP
I have the WHO checklist in front of me too, Mr Cole-Hamilton, and I have read the entire document. I do not accept that there was a failure to consider mass...
Alex Cole-Hamilton LD
Thank you for that answer, cabinet secretary, but I come back to the checklist in front of me. It mentions “testing” 25 times—surveillance testing; test, tra...
Jeane Freeman SNP
I need to say a few things, and then I will bring in Professor Leitch. First, I did not say that the WHO’s approach means that you can take or leave some of ...
Professor Jason Leitch (Scottish Government)
Thank you, cabinet secretary and Mr Cole-Hamilton. You have covered the fundamentals of why the exercise did what it did. I will add some context for the exe...
The Convener Lab
Thank you. Please be brief, Alex.
Alex Cole-Hamilton LD
I appreciate your contribution, Professor Leitch. You said that operation Silver Swan was for influenza—normal common or garden influenza—sweeping the world....
Professor Leitch
It was not because we are bad people, Mr Cole-Hamilton, that is for sure—
Alex Cole-Hamilton LD
I did not say you were bad—
The Convener Lab
I call the cabinet secretary. I am sure that you will get another opportunity to speak.
Jeane Freeman SNP
Thanks, convener. As Professor Leitch was about to say, in planning for an influenza pandemic—and the WHO checklist is for influenza pandemic preparedness pl...
Professor Leitch
I simply add that I would not describe flu as “common or garden”. Flu kills 500,000 people a year globally, including many thousands in the United Kingdom. P...
Brian Whittle (South Scotland) (Con) Con
Good morning, cabinet secretary, and thank you for giving up your time. It is nice to see Professor Leitch and Mr Connaghan on the call. My question follows...
Jeane Freeman SNP
I do not think that we should be quite as binary as saying that that should be done by either the UK or the individual nations of the UK. Collectively, all f...
Brian Whittle Con
Thank you for that answer, cabinet secretary, but I am really looking not so much at how you responded this time as at how we can learn from that and how we ...
Jeane Freeman SNP
It is important to say that operation Cygnus was about the position in England, not in Scotland. Operation Silver Swan was held the year previously, and the ...
Brian Whittle Con
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Jeane Freeman SNP
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Sandra White (Glasgow Kelvin) (SNP) SNP
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