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Issue 83
Healthcare Systems “Close to Collapse” Inquiry Finds
The UK’s healthcare systems were “ill-prepared”, “overwhelmed” and “came close to collapse” during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the third report from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, published by Chair Baroness Heather Hallett. The report – The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems of the United Kingdom concludes that while the NHS and care systems “ultimately coped, but only just”, the consequences for patients, families and healthcare workers were profound, longlasting and often catastrophic. Module 3, the third of the Inquiry’s 10 investigations, examined the impact of Covid-19 on healthcare systems across the four nations. It investigated how governments and society responded to the pandemic, the capacity of health-
care systems to adapt and the impact on patients, their loved ones and healthcare workers. This new report published March 19, found healthcare systems were already overstretched and in a precarious state. This fragility had profound consequences once the crisis hit, especially when the numbers of people seeking treatment for Covid-19 started to increase dramatically. Despite the best efforts of healthcare workers, many Covid patients did not receive the care they would otherwise receive and non Covid patients had their diagnoses and treatment delayed.
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