Details of how officials in Jeremy Hunt’s Department of Health blocked some requests for PPE in the years before the pandemic hit are to be investigated by the Covid inquiry 🔴 Exclusive janemerrick23
He raised concerns with the Department of Health about the state of the UK’s stockpile in 2017, after a three-day pandemic rehearsal, known as Exercise Cygnus, in October 2016 revealed there were shortcomings in the government’s pandemic preparedness, including the “need to strengthen the surge capability and capacity in operational resources in certain areas”, a lack of understanding of how the public would react to a major outbreak, and around PPE stockpiles.
But by 2017, Public Health England’s procurement team was warning of the “very large incremental cost of adding in eye protection”. According to minutes from Nervtag’s June 2017 meeting, a “subsequent internal DH health economic assessment has revealed that following these recommendations would substantially increase the cost of the PPE component of the pandemic stockpile four- to six-fold, with a very low likelihood of cost-benefit based on standard thresholds”.
Minutes from that meeting show that professor Van Tam would “write to DH to re-express concerns that NERVTAG has made new recommendations regarding the composition of pandemic stockpiles of antivirals, antibiotics and PPE, but the current clinical management guidance has not been updated to reflect this”.
In 2018, recommendations for boosting PPE stockpiles continued, but the government continued to make stipulations over cost.
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