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UNCOVERED: Heather hallett - The Untold Story

‘My husband had the Covid-19 vaccine – 11 days later he was dead’

Stephen Ward developed a blood clot after a dose of AstraZeneca

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry: Jab rollout a ‘success’ but vaccine harm payouts ‘need reform’

Inquiry chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett praised the fact the UK was a world leader in biomedical sciences.

Evening Standard

Friday briefing: What the Covid inquiry reveals about the NHS – and why it should worry us

In today’s newsletter: Bereaved families say the latest findings confirm long-standing concerns about capacity, care and political choices

The Guardian - UK

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Why the NHS can’t build a successful system on staff goodwill alone

COVID-19 INQUIRY: During the Covid-19 pandemic, which resulted in 200,000 deaths, the UK’s healthcare system came “close to collapse”. As the inquiry chair warns ministers that there may not be a workforce “willing or able to” get the NHS through another pandemic, experts tells Rebecca Thomas while so many staff…

The Independent UK

Stay-at-home pandemic order sent message NHS was closed – Covid-19 Inquiry

The coronavirus probe has published its report on the NHS during the crisis.

Evening Standard

Government’s ‘stay at home’ messaging may have cost thousands of lives, Covid inquiry finds

NHS survived the pandemic ‘but only just’, inquiry chair concludes after probe’s latest damning assessment

The Independent UK

NHS was ‘on brink of collapse’ during pandemic, Covid inquiry finds

Heather Hallett says ‘superhuman’ efforts of workers were at times the only reason health service survived

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Covid-19 inquiry latest: Healthcare system was ‘on brink of collapse’ and NHS ‘only just’ coped in pandemic

Report finds some people did not seek treatment for life-threatening conditions

The Independent UK

NHS can’t cope with another pandemic, top doctors warn as harrowing impact of Covid-19 to be laid bare

Exclusive: Health leaders warn overrun emergency departments, an explosion of corridor care and soaring waiting lists mean hospitals are in a much worse position than they were before Covid hit

The Independent UK

The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti-science delusion

There is nothing wrong with questioning the mighty cost of the lockdowns, but we can’t let hardline libertarians rewrite Britain’s pandemic history, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Robinson disagrees with Hallett findings over Stormont pandemic response

The DUP leader said there was ‘nothing new’ in the report published last week.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson had a four-day break in crucial period before Covid pandemic struck

The official records have raised questions over whether the former prime minister may have misled the Covid inquiry

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson ‘beyond contempt’ for attack on Covid inquiry’s findings and refusal to apologise

Families of the Covid bereaved have reacted with horror to the lack of contrition in the former prime minister’s weekly column

The Independent UK

Johnson says Covid inquiry that criticised chaos in his government ‘muddled’

The former prime minister said the Hallett report should be ‘filed vertically’.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Conservatives must apologise for their disastrous handling of Covid

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Covid inquiry’s conclusion that the needless loss of 23,000 lives was due to government decision-making at the start of the pandemic, made worse by the toxic and chaotic leadership of Boris Johnson, has yet to make many leading Tories of the day sufficiently penitent

Evening Standard

Stormont response to Covid characterised by ‘petty party politics’, say bereaved

Relatives of people who died in the pandemic said the latest Covid inquiry report vindicated their criticism of the official response in the region.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson could face legal action over pandemic failings after damning Covid inquiry report

Nadine Dorries and Michael Gove have led attempts to undermine the damning report by Heather Hallett after it found inaction by Boris Johnson’s government may have cost 23,000 people their lives

Evening Standard

Covid Bereaved group ‘will hold Government to account on Covid lessons’

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry released its second report on Thursday.

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The Independent UK

This shameful Covid report leaves no way back for Boris Johnson

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW : Editorial: That 23,000 people in England alone lost their lives because of the dithering of the former leader is a fitting – and awful – denouement to the political career of a man who was never up to the job of prime minister

Evening Standard

Ten bombshell findings from damning Covid inquiry report - including that lockdown could have been avoided

The Standard has compiled the 10 most shocking revelations from Baroness Hallett’s Covid-19 inquiry report

Euronews

'Too little, too late': Former UK government slammed for its initial COVID-19 response

The inquiry found that chaos at the heart of the Conservative government and a failure to take COVID-19 seriously potentially cost 23,000 lives in England alone.

The Independent UK

'Too little, too late:' Former UK government slammed for its initial COVID-19 response

A public inquiry has criticized the U_K_'s initial COVID-19 response in early 2020 as “too little, too late.”

The Independent UK

Toxic No 10 culture, unnecessary deaths and failed children: Key takeaways from the Covid inquiry report

Boris Johnson failed to appreciate the ‘urgency of the situation’ and also failed to tackle a toxic culture in Downing Street, report says

The Independent UK

Divided Stormont led to ‘chaotic’ Covid response, public inquiry finds

The report published on Thursday focuses on the core political and administrative decision-making across the UK in response to the pandemic.

The Independent UK

Johnson and Cummings oversaw ‘toxic and chaotic’ Downing Street – Covid inquiry

Baroness Heather Hallett’s report on the response to Covid-19 criticised Boris Johnson’s excessive optimism in the face of the looming pandemic.

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