The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. For example, the vaccine task force was not able to build a bulk mRNA manufacturing capability in the UK. It appears that the Government has lost interest in both vaccines and pandemic preparedness, but it is also an example of the usual story of Government not learning from its mistakes. This is the insider view into how the Vaccine Taskforce beat those long odds and delivered a scientific miracle. From a cottage miles away from Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus – and her daughter’s exams.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Written with compelling verve and complete authority, this book describes how Kate Bingham ensured that Covid-19 vaccines would be made available to the UK. Her clarity of thought and action in a such a dark and turbulent time is a seam running through the book, and I know for certain that her efforts saved many lives. No and the book argues that Britain will probably be less prepared than it was for the covid pandemic. A blueprint of how industry, academia and government can work together to address a question of global importance, with lessons for other future crises.Kate Bingham’s new book, The Long Shot, is a gripping account of the UK Government Vaccine Task Force’s response to the pandemic by a remarkable, determined, thoughtful, and practical individual who was at the heart of the critical decisions that had to be made.

It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. Finally, Bingham finishes off the book with reflections on working with government and the issues that hold Government back from delivering on service and projects. But I have to disagree with the title, because the book shows that it really wasn’t such a "long shot" with Kate at the helm. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Dame Kate Bingham served as the Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, on a seven-month unpaid secondment, steering a team of experts to deliver the world’s fastest Covid-19 vaccination programme.We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. With the revelations concerning partygate and other scandals it does make one question what sort of the administration Johnson was running in No 10.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, they carried on with usual Government bureaucracy and inefficiency, with civil servants and politicians spending time protecting their 'fiefdoms' and promoting their own interests. Johnson is benignly hands-off til he has to become positively hands-on in reigning in spinning misinformation about the VTF coming out of Number 10.The Times and The Guardian are shown as particularly eager recipients and disseminators of spun misinformation about the VTF. Good on her - success is not just about creating high performance teams, it is also about identifying and addressing hypocrisy and poor performance, and ultimately punishing failure.