UK Wasted £10 Billion on Covid PPE, Inquiry Finds
A UK Covid inquiry has found that the government wasted nearly £10 billion on personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic, with procurement flaws and inadequate stockpiles leaving NHS staff poorly protected. The inquiry highlighted vast sums squandered by the Johnson government in its scramble to secure PPE.
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The £10bn wasted on Covid PPE
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Read full article →UK ‘wasted’ nearly £10bn on PPE during pandemic, inquiry finds
‘Vast’ sums squandered in health crisis, report says, as it criticises so-called VIP lane for procurement
Read full article →Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report Boris Johnson’s Conservative government wasted public money on a “vast” scale with flawed buying of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic, an official inquiry has concluded. The Covid-19 inquiry chair, Heather Hallett, also criticised the then government’s controversial “VIP lane”, which gave high priority for PPE contracts to companies with political co...
By David Conn
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Read full article →The UK wasted almost £10bn during their scramble to secure PPE during the Covid pandemic
The UK’s Covid Inquiry has criticised ‘vast’ waste in PPE procurement during the pandemic.
Read full article →PPE failures left NHS staff poorly protected and wasted £10bn, Covid inquiry finds
The lives of NHS staff and patients were put at risk in the pandemic because of a lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), with almost £10bn of taxpayer's money wasted in a scramble to buy more, the Covid inquiry has said.
By Deborah Okailey Quarcoo
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