🔴 Cuts to local government funding in the years before the pandemic put public health services under “significant pressure”, a senior scientist has told the Covid inquiry
, which is looking into whether the UK was sufficiently prepared for a pandemic in the decade before 2020.
Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne defended their policy of austerity, which was designed to cut the deficit and stabilise the public finances, and insisted theYet the inquiry has heard over the past two weeks how councils, which are responsible for public health at a local level, had to contend with cuts to their budgets which left services “depleted” before the pandemic began. – the forerunner to the UKHSA – had undergone a 40 per cent real-terms cut in funding over its lifetime.
Dame Jenny said the “combined effect” of cuts to public sector bodies was the “overall impact was quite significant”. The UKHSA chief later said she did not agree with other witnesses to the inquiry, including former health secretary and current Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, that there was “groupthink” in the government and among scientists which meant that there was too much focus on preparing for a possible flu pandemic and not enough attention on other viruses.
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