Announcing People's Covid Inquiry Session 3

Session 3: Did the Government adopt the right public health strategy?

Wednesday 24 March 7pm - 9pm

Sponsored by Keep Our NHS Public, there has been two previous sessions for the public to join via Zoom.

In this session, the inquiry will look at the UK government’s engagement with local government public health teams, primary care GP teams, and the NHS and ask if this has been effective.

Under the scope will be decisions of government to privatise testing and contact tracing:

* their response to calls for ‘Find, Test, Trace, Isolate and Support’ (FTTIS),

*their sharing of data and decision making with local government;

* the financial support for central v. local contact tracing and performance of these;

* abolition of Public Health England and the level of public health expertise that they relied on in their decision making.

Our panel members are:

Michael Mansfield QC (chair), Professor Neena Modi, Dr Tolullah Oni, Dr Jacky Davis, Lorna Hackett Barrister (Counsel to the Inquiry)​

The witnesses for this session will be:

Professor Anthony Costello Professor of Global Health and Sustainable Development, University College London; former Director at WHO, member of Independent SAGE

Professor Michael Baker Department of Public Health, University of Otago, New Zealand

Rehana Azam National Secretary GMB Union

Janet Harris Sheffield Community Contact Tracing Group

Find out more about the People's Covid Inquiry by clicking on the pic above.

Source: unionsafety / Keep Our NHS Public