Boris Johnson blames NHS ‘bed blocking’ for first Covid lockdown
Boris Johnson has blamed “bed blocking” in the NHS for locking down the country as Covid took hold, the public inquiry has heard. In a section of his witness statement
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Hancock wanted to decide ‘who should live and who should die’ – former NHS boss
Matt Hancock wanted to decide “who should live and who should die” if hospitals became overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, the former NHS England boss has claimed. Lord Simon Stevens (pictured),
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Long Covid patients initially ‘not believed’ with ‘no place to go’ for support, inquiry told
People with long Covid were “not believed” and had “no place to go” for support, an umbrella body for health and social care has told an inquiry. Sara Redmond, chief
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Tory MSP tells of mother’s care home death and says ‘families deserve the truth’
A senior Tory MSP has spoken about how his mother died alone and “without family contact” in a care home during the Covid pandemic. Murdo Fraser (pictured) questioned if strict
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‘Hundreds of officials and potentially ministers’ broke Covid rules on daily basis – MacNamara
Coronavirus rules were broken on a daily basis at the heart of government, with hundreds of civil servants and potentially ministers at risk of being fined, a former top official
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Sturgeon ‘has nothing to hide’ as 14,000 messages to be handed to Covid inquiry
Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she has “nothing to hide” under questioning about her WhatsApps, as 14,000 messages are set to be disclosed to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
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Ex-communications chief tells inquiry Eat Out to Help Out ‘made absolutely no sense whatsoever’
The Eat Out to Help Out scheme and the policy of sending people back to work during the pandemic “made absolutely no sense whatsoever”, Boris Johnson’s former director of communications
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Boris Johnson suggested he thought ‘Covid was nature’s way of dealing with old people’
Boris Johnson suggested he believed the coronavirus pandemic was “nature’s way of dealing with old people” as he resisted lockdown measures, Sir Patrick Vallance argued. The Government’s chief scientific adviser
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Pilot scheme launched to monitor infections in care homes in England
More than 500 care homes in England are taking part in a pilot programme to monitor and help reduce infection spread, aiming to build on research done in the pandemic
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Whatsapp messages reveal frustration over Johnson’s ‘impossible’ pandemic leadership
The UK’s top civil servant vented that Boris Johnson “cannot lead” amid pandemic-era frustration with the prime minister’s leadership, according to WhatsApp messages shared with the Covid-19 inquiry. Simon Case,
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