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Published in: Home: NewsCovid inquiry first phase ends with shot at ‘critically under-resourced’ NHS
Arguments over NHS funding and future pandemic preparations marked the end of the opening phase of public hearings
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Published in: Home: NewsCovid bereaved families slam David Cameron and George Osborne over austerity
Lawyers for the victims' families took aim at those they hold responsible for leaving the UK unprepared for Covid
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Published in: Home: NewsCovid bereaved say loved ones were treated ‘like toxic waste’ after death
UK was not equipped to deal with Covid deaths, bereaved families tell inquiry as Module 1 concludes
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Published in: Home: NewsBMA chief: UK stockpiled just 3% of daily PPE needed for Covid
Philip Banfield echoes National Audit Office warning about lack of gowns – and criticises standard of NHS-issue masks
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Published in: Home: NewsHospitals had to upgrade ‘inadequate’ oxygen machines at height of pandemic
“Major engineering and structural changes” were made to improve equipment when Covid hit, a health expert has said
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Published in: Home: NewsResults of pandemic planning exercises kept secret from local councils
Local government chief says sharing results of national exercises would have ‘changed what we were doing’ during Covid
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Published in: Home: NewsScotland had to drop PPE planning when pandemic hit, admits medical chief
Covid inquiry also hears how government spent months without contact details for public health chiefs across the UK
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Published in: Home: NewsUK government ignored our letters, Welsh minister tells Covid inquiry
Vaughan Gething accuses UK ministers including Matt Hancock of hampering Welsh pandemic prep by refusing to engage
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Published in: Home: NewsWelsh capacity to deal with infectious diseases was ‘inadequate’ before Covid
There were no specialist ‘high consequence infectious disease’ units in Wales, Frank Atherton told the Covid inquiry
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Published in: Home: NewsKey takeaways as Whitty and Vallance give evidence to Covid inquiry
Pair say UK lacked capacity to ‘scale up’ testing and treatment, and not enough was done about health inequality
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Published in: Home: OpinionNHS at 75: Fund it properly or hold a referendum on its future
Doctor and campaigner Julia Patterson on how politicians have betrayed the NHS and how we can fight for its future
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Published in: Home: NewsGovernment stockpiled ‘much’ less PPE for Black staff – health chief
Covid-19 inquiry hears how, despite warnings to stockpile PPE, Black healthcare staff had fewer masks available
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Published in: Home: NewsDavid Cameron grilled over claims austerity helped UK prepare for pandemic
Ex-PM accused of being ‘in denial’ about the impact of cuts to UK services under his leadership
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Published in: Home: NewsLockdowns not considered in UK’s emergency plans, Covid inquiry hears
A senior civil servant said the government's planning was focused on a no-deal Brexit and flu pandemics
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Published in: Home: NewsUK didn’t consider structural racism in pandemic planning, documents reveal
Covid-19 inquiry expert witnesses found almost no emergency planning material that mentioned health inequalities
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Published in: Home: News‘Murderers’: Families slam secret Covid report
‘Lessons learned’ review reveals the government knew in 2020 that protecting NHS capacity had harmed adult social care
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Government knew it had prioritised NHS ‘to detriment of care homes’
Explosive admission made in top secret Covid ‘lessons learned’ review obtained by openDemocracy after two-year battle
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Published in: Home: OpinionMark Rowley is right – police belong nowhere near mental health crises
The police are a danger to people in mental health distress, but austerity has left the NHS unable to step in
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Published in: Home: OpinionGeorge Floyd three years on: So many anti-racism pledges, so little progress
As Black Lives Matter protests surged after George Floyd's murder, the UK vowed to act. Three years on, it hasn't...
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: How ‘unfit’ PPE helped former playboy buy two mansions
Glove tycoon Robert Gros splashed millions on luxury homes and planned to build cinema, disco and golf simulator