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MPs criticise ‘staggering’ failures at UK Health Security Agency

Damning report highlights lack of spending controls and no stockpile plan for future pandemic at flagship agency set up under Boris Johnson

The Guardian - UK

Government wasted billions on PPE and set up body with accounting failings – MPs

The Public Accounts Committee criticised the UK Health Security Agency for weak governance and financial controls.

The Independent UK

Health agency unable to prove billions of pounds spent properly, damning report finds

The UK Health Security Agency was launched in 2021 with such poor financial controls that it is unable to prove that billions of pounds were properly spent, MPs have ruled

Daily Mirror

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UK deferred pandemic planning as no-deal Brexit loomed, inquiry hears

Government knew in 2016 that major disease outbreak would overwhelm health system, documents suggest

The Guardian - UK

‘It could be taken down by an enthusiastic child’: Whitehall wide open to cyber-attack, warn campaigners

TaxPayers’ Alliance says HMRC, health department and atomic energy authority all use old servers that make them vulnerable

The Guardian - UK

Covid Inquiry: What we learned on Day 2 as Government admits rules caused 'profound pain'

The Department of Health's legal representative Fiona Scolding KC told the Covid Inquiry that different decisions may have been made with hindsight, as the probe continued its examination of the years leading up the pandemic

Daily Mirror

Covid testing was a weakness in early pandemic response, DHSC tells inquiry

Health department and Cabinet Office make opening statements on second day of first module

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DHSC accepts restrictions caused ‘profound pain’, Covid Inquiry hears

Fiona Scolding KC, representing the Department of Health, said the Government was often faced with a choice between ‘hugely unpalatable options’.

The Independent UK

Social care recruitment campaign costing millions branded ‘ineffectual’

The staff vacancy rate is at a record high, with 165,000 vacancies in the social care sector in 2021/22.

The Independent UK

How does Wegovy work? The ‘game changing’ weight loss drug beloved by Hollywood

Ministers have announced plans which could see tens of thousands given access to new weight-loss drug

The Independent UK

Transparency row deepens as UK Government sends redacted Whatsapp messages to inquiry

Hugo Keith KC said the Cabinet Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) had both submitted correspondence but had removed…

The National (Scotland)

Transparency row between Government and Covid inquiry widens

Both the Foreign Office and Cabinet Office had made submissions containing redactions, the chairwoman was told.

The Independent UK

US banker paid £73m dividend in 2021 after firm won millions in UK Covid contracts

Banks Bourne, sole owner of Tanner Pharma in North Carolina, took sum from Tanner’s UK arm, records show

The Guardian - UK

Government failing to tackle alcohol harm, MPs say

Existing data suggests 10 million people in England regularly exceed recommended guidelines on drinking.

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The Guardian - UK

HRT medicine Utrogestan restricted in UK amid shortages

Pharmacists can only dispense maximum of two months’ supply for every prescription as supplier struggles to meet demand

The Independent UK

Mental health hospitals are ‘making children worse’, leading charity warns

Exclusive: Damning report finds young patients exposed to ‘abuse, neglect and unsafe care’

The Guardian - UK

Covid contracts: messages reveal extent of Tory donor access to Matt Hancock

Two major donors used ministerial access to promote firms offering Covid services with which they were involved

The Guardian - UK

Former Isle of Man chief medic sacked for whistleblowing is awarded £3.2m

Tribunal finds Dr Rosalind Ranson was unfairly dismissed after speaking out on Manx approach to Covid

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The Independent UK

Sunak ‘not aware of any informal concerns about Steve Barclay’s conduct’

The Health Secretary has become the latest member of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet to face bullying allegations.

The Independent UK

Experts call for tobacco levy to help nation become smoke-free

The Government’s current plans are ‘nowhere near enough’, a letter signed by health charities and medical Royal Colleges says.

The Independent UK

Government lacks ‘focus and direction’ on social care reform, says expert

Simon Bottery of the King’s Fund, said social care is being ‘short-changed’.

Wales Online

GPs 'ordered to answer phone to more patients' in plan to end 8am scramble

Surgeries will reportedly be told it is unacceptable to ask patients to call back later

The Independent UK

GPs being helped to take more calls at peak times as part of appointment drive OLD

Surgeries will reportedly be told they will no longer be able to ask patients to ring back later.

The Independent UK

Junior doctors’ leaders to halt strikes and enter pay talks

The Department of Health and Social Care said the BMA has agreed to talks on the same terms as other health unions which concluded this week.

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak preparing for fresh concessions to end public sector strikes

Negotiations with teachers begin and junior doctors also agree to formal talks following action this week

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