Almost £10 billion was wasted on unsuitable PPE during the pandemic due to a lack of preparedness.
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The COVID inquiry focused on whether lockdowns came too soon or too late, but the more important question is could they have been avoided altogether?
Vaughan Gething succeeds Mark Drakeford as Welsh first minister, following a vote in the Senedd.
The former prime minister and his allies have dodged questions and passed the buck in an inquiry that is meant to give the public confidence that lessons will be learned for the future.
It may be years before we know how successful the COVID inquiry was in its aims.
Communication is a two-way street.
Giving evidence to the COVID inquiry, Boris Johnson’s former adviser exposed the dysfunction of an administration lacking in the expertise needed to manage a crisis.
Hundreds of thousands of red hearts adorn a wall directly opposite parliament, yet successive prime ministers have nothing to say about officially marking the lives lost in the pandemic.
Evidence shows austerity has wide-ranging consequences for health.
Former health secretary Matt Hancock told the COVID inquiry that the UK’s pandemic planning was ‘completely wrong’. An expert looks back to early 2020 to assess this statement.
Baroness Hallett says she should be the one to decide which government messages are relevant to her inquiry, but is she right?
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