Health

Planning focused more on burying the dead than averting disaster, ex-health secretary says.

Sir Chris laments treatment as he gives evidence to Covid Inquiry on pandemic preparedness.

The UK should have prepared to test and isolate more, the ex-health secretary tells the Covid inquiry.

Dame Sally Davies apologises to bereaved families and says the UK was poorly prepared for the pandemic.

David Cameron says “group think” meant government focused on flu pandemics, rather than other diseases.

The nation’s health was declining and the NHS was struggling by 2020, the Covid inquiry hears.

Before deciding whether to operate, Salgado studied the literature to find out if a larger clitoris led to increased sexual pleasure. He found a 2014 study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine that showed a correlation between women with larger clitorises and the ability to orgasm. But the study was small, with only 30 participants,…

Decisions were “finely balanced” and, with hindsight, might have been different, Fiona Scolding KC says.

The UK may not have been well prepared “at all”, says the lead lawyer for the Covid inquiry.

BBC political editor Chris Mason asked Rishi Sunak if the government was challenging the full release of messages between ministers and officials during the pandemic, to the Covid inquiry, because he was worried about something embarrassing him. The PM said: “Not at all”. He said it was “right that we learn the lessons of Covid”…