The British Medical Association has spent months collating thousands of accounts from doctors and healthcare workers who lived and worked through the pandemic.
It doesn’t make very positive reading and the review into the government’s handling of the pandemic concludes that it failed in its duty of care to protect doctors from avoidable harm and suffering.
Doctors speak honestly about the blatant shortages of PPE at the beginning of the first wave.
They also speak about how inadequate the risk assessments were for hospital staff who were Black, Asian or from an ethnic minority background and how, had they been undertaken more urgently, fewer doctors would have died.
The list of alleged failings on the government’s part are huge, as ITV News Health Editor Emily Morgan reports.
Read more here: https://www.itv.com/news/2022-05-18/the-damning-testimony-nhs-staff-have-submitted-to-the-covid-inquiry
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