UK Covid-19 Inquiry
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Report and Recommendations July 2024
About Covid-19
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Covid-19 is a virus. It suddenly appeared in the UK in 2020. It spread very quickly.
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People across the world became ill. Many people died. This meant it was called a pandemic.
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There were lockdowns, where people had to stay at home. Hospitals and care homes struggled to cope.
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The UK Covid-19 Inquiry is looking at what happened before and during the pandemic. The results will help us prepare for next time.
About this report
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This is the Inquiry’s first report. It is about resilience û preparedness.
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Resilience means the UK’s strength and ability to cope with a pandemic.
Preparedness – did we prepare well enough, before it happened?
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People from all over the UK told us about their experiences.
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Baroness Hallett is the Chair of the Inquiry. She is gathering the information and writing reports.
What we found out
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The Inquiry found out that the UK was not properly prepared for Covid-19. Reasons include
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- Lots of organisations were involved in making plans. This made things too complicated.
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- We did not find out enough about the risk of a pandemic like Covid-19 happening, and what the effects might be. This meant we couldn’t plan properly.
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- The government’s pandemic plan was out of date and not flexible enough.
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- Before the pandemic, some groups of people were already not getting good enough healthcare. This is called health inequality.
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Thinking about this should have been part of the planning for a pandemic.
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- We did not learn enough from other pandemics that have happened.
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- We were not ready to test and isolate so many people.
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- Policies were out of date, too complicated and used language that people did not understand.
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This can make it take longer to make decisions and organise things, when a pandemic happens.
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- Government ministers got advice from a small group of experts. They needed to hear more opinions, from more people. Ministers did not ask enough questions about the advice.
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- Experts who gave advice to the government did not feel free to give a wide range of opinions.
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Everyone agreed with each other too often, because they did not hear enough different views.
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We could have saved lives and money, if we had been better prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic
What should happen next
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- Make everything simpler: plans, policies, and the ways people work together.
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- Learn more about the risks in a pandemic.
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This means finding out about harmful things that might happen, then making plans to make them less likely to happen.
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- Involve all of the UK in making plans. Use our experience of pandemics to make better plans
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- Build better systems to collect and share information. Do more research about pandemics.
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- Every 3 years, practice the pandemic plans. Publish the results, so everyone can read about it.
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- Ask a wide range of experts what they think about the plans for coping with a pandemic. Let them ask difficult questions.
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- Write regular reports about how prepared we are for a pandemic.
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- Create a new organisation to
- Plan for pandemics
- Respond to pandemics
- Give advice to the government
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It must work closely with experts and communities.
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All these recommendations are designed to work well together.
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Baroness Hallett expects that all of the recommendations will happen.
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The Inquiry will be finding out whether things change or not.
Future reports
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There will be more reports about:
- Decisions the government made
- Healthcare
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- Vaccines and treatments
- Things that were bought – like medical equipment and software
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- Ceribandin, şopandin û veqetandin
- Social care
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- Zarok û ciwan
- How the UK’s money was spent
Zêdetir fêr bibin
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If you want to find out more, please go to this website
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https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/
Thank you for reading our report.