NHS 'failed test of its ability to handle a pandemic three years ago'

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NHS ‘failed test of its ability to handle full scale pandemic three years ago’ and ‘ministers hid the results’

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A senior academic directly involved in both Cygnus and the coronavirus pandemic added: “These exercises are supposed to prepare the government for something like this – but it appears they were aware of the problem but didn’t do much about it. “We’ve been quite surprised at the lack of coherent planning for a pandemic on this scale. “It’s basically a lack of attention to what would be needed to prevent a disease like this from overwhelming the system.

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Fucking shit government. The NHS at this time put out a tender for 660 million face masks. Yes that is not a typo cos I quoted for it. Now it all turns out to be a scam as they never intended placing n order

Trust the govt....trust a snake...

Three years ago? I mean, why wasn't I told about it? At least I could Have been suitably terrified.

Negativity....well the nhs are certainly at the moment shining in our hour of need. My wife is a nurse carer and at the moment she is in hospital being cared for, because she has caught this horrible virus. So scrap the negativity .

No surprise there then youd be amazed what else there hiding...from the population.

Well fortunately most of those ministers have now gone. Under Boris we have a caring prime minister who is pulling out all the stops and working hard for all of us. Twittersphere haters - you are out of step with the country if you disagree with this.

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