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BMA chief: UK stockpiled just 3% of daily PPE needed for Covid

Philip Banfield echoes National Audit Office warning about lack of gowns – and criticises standard of NHS-issue masks

Bereaved families demand reform to UK’s outdated drug laws

As Sunak rejects legalisation in Scotland, grieving families ask how many more must die as a result of 50-year-old law

Gove tells Covid inquiry no-deal Brexit planning prepared UK for ‘any’ crisis

The levelling up secretary defended the government's decision to focus on no-deal Brexit over a potential pandemic

Covid inquiry has no plan to sanction Boris Johnson over missing messages

Bereaved families have called for action against the former prime minister, who claims he can’t unlock his old phone

Hospitals had to upgrade ‘inadequate’ oxygen machines at height of pandemic

“Major engineering and structural changes” were made to improve equipment when Covid hit, a health expert has said

Results of pandemic planning exercises kept secret from local councils

Local government chief says sharing results of national exercises would have ‘changed what we were doing’ during Covid

No one told me about pandemic risks, says former NI deputy Michelle O’Neill

Former health minister was ‘unaware’ of high influenza risk to Northern Ireland – or of departmental risk register