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pjc50 on Dec 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in...

> the UK government initially decided

So, not an NHS decision but a political decision by the relevant cabinet minister? That changes the answer. It's important to distinguish between decisions made by "the NHS" (to the extent that this isn't just individual trusts, or NICE, or whatever) and political decisions made by the government which are ideological.

thu2111 on Dec 3, 2020 [–]

The decision was made by Public Health England. But the NHS is the government, regardless of how it's branded or how it arranges itself internally.

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