The group COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, representing some 6,000 relatives, was left disappointed when its request for families to give testimony in person was rejected on grounds of logistics.
"I believe the inquiry shares these goals and I expect it to do all it can to achieve them."
The deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, Saffron Cordery, said:"The pandemic has had - and continues to have - a deep and lasting impact on the health and care sector."It is important that the inquiry explores how well prepared the country was for a pandemic and that actionable lessons are learned from the inquiry as it progresses."
It will span health and social care, lockdowns, tests and trace, education, science, epidemiological and modelling data, vaccine procurement and rollout, and the economy among other things.But at the heart of this inquiry are the people who have suffered loss. "I hope the inquiry will call more bereaved family members as witnesses to give evidence to all the modules including module one."Not everyone can give evidence but without learning from the experiences of a proportionate number of our members, how can the inquiry properly evaluate the decisions made by those in charge?
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