Pandemic


The COVID Inquiry is the last chance to get to the bottom of the £2 billion contract with the private hospital sector during the pandemic


| November 13, 2024 | Blog

One of the scandals of the COVID 19 pandemic which the current public inquiry has yet to explore is the failure by the government to use the private hospital sector to help the NHS and to reduce the growing backlog of elective care for NHS patients. Nowhere was this failure more obvious than in January 2021 at the peak of the second wave, when London’s NHS hospital services were collapsing under the weight of thousands of new COVID... Read More