The inquiry will look at preparedness for a pandemic when it begins its hearings next week
A PHE report of the exercise says “access to sufficient levels of appropriate PPE was also considered and pandemic stockpiles were suggested as a means to ensure sufficient quantities were available”.
The scope of Baroness Hallett’s first module will cover the period from June 2009, in the wake of the swine flu outbreak, to January 2020, when Covid was declared a global public health emergency, although it will also cover Exercise Winter Willow in 2007, which tested the resilience of the NHS and other services to a major influenza pandemic.
A 2011 report by David Cameron’s administration into the UK’s influenza pandemic preparedness strategy found that the Government “already has in place stockpiles of facemasks and respirators for health and social-care workers” but that “in line with the scientific evidence, the Government will not stockpile facemasks for general use in the community”.
It said while a pandemic that affected the UK would be most likely caused by a new subtype of the Influenza A virus, “the plans could be adapted and deployed for scenarios such as an outbreak of another infectious disease, for example, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in health care settings, with an altogether different pattern of infectivity”.
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