Didn't realise the scale of this inquiry.
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The damning testimony NHS staff have submitted to the Covid inquiry
The Covid inquiry, yet to get underway, is likely to be the biggest public inquiry in terms of disclosure, ever. It is also likely to take several years to complete. Millions of documents will be combed through and testimonies listened to in order to establish the country’s preparedness and response to the coronavirus pandemic....
Some of the main findings that will be submitted to the inquiry are:
- Many medics think "healthcare workers died due to insufficient PPE".
- They feel they were "systematically exposed to Covid without being able to properly mitigate the risk".
- The chronic lack of staffing is said to have "left the medical profession too often exposed, suggesting not all deaths were inevitable".
- Some believe had the NHS "gone into the pandemic with more staff, it's possible deaths in the profession may have been lower."
- Doctors surveyed found nearly half of the respondents thought risk assessments were either "mostly or completely ineffective".
- One recalls the risk assessment being "just an arbitrary piece of paper to be filled in to make people feel they were doing something when in all honesty ethnic minorities were dying more".
- Doctors "have been left exhausted, demoralised and unwell".
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https://www.itv.com/news/2022-05-18/...-covid-inquiry