Covid inquiry PPE report - key findings
What went wrong with the government's planning and buying of vital items like gloves and gowns that cost taxpayers billions of pounds.
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The Covid inquiry has published its damning report, external into why NHS workers did not have enough personal protective equipment (PPE) when the pandemic hit.
It details what went wrong with the government's planning and buying of vital items like gloves and gowns that cost taxpayers billions of pounds.
Baroness Heather Hallett criticised the "vast" waste in pandemic procurement
The scramble to buy PPE during the pandemic saw the UK waste almost £10 billion of taxpayers' money, the inquiry says, with tens of millions of pounds more spent on other equipment that simply could not be used.
The chair Baroness Heather Hallett criticised the "vast" waste in pandemic procurement, amounting to two-thirds of the £14.9bn total the UK and devolved governments spent on PPE.
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