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Northern Ireland Brexit preparation 'took staff away from pandemic planning'

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'I think there is absolutely no doubt that the absence of ministers did have a significant impact on our ability to develop new policy'

Brexit preparations took staff away from pandemic planning, Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer has said.

Read more: Leading Co Derry surgeon reflects on five years at the helm of medical body dealing with Covid, waiting lists and Stormont The Northern Ireland Pandemic Flu Oversight Group was set up in 2018 to develop surge plans in relation to secondary care and social care, following the UK’s Exercise Cygnus.

“I think there is absolutely no doubt that the absence of ministers did have a significant impact on our ability to develop new policy,” he said. “The resulting position was that we were having to make decisions which were not necessarily decisions that should be made but decisions that had to be made.”

 

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