Tell Covid Inquiry

The CEO of NHS England said that the Boris Johnson government has prevented a request to finance 10,000 other beds at the height of the Covid.

Amanda Bretchard told the UK-19 investigation that the decision made by the treasury in July 2020 was “very disappointing.”

She said that the additional family and employees were used to cut the waiting lists for the planned care and “building flexibility” that enter a second winter wave of the epidemic.

The government said it could not comment during the investigation.

Health ministers of that time are expected to provide evidence later this month, to the third section of the investigation, and they look at the effect of Covid on NHS and health care systems throughout the UK.

Mrs. Bretshard worked as the Executive Director of Operations at NHS England from 2019 until she was promoted to CEO, in August 2021.

In her evidence, she said that the request was submitted to the government, for 10,000 additional permanent hospitals, in July 2020.

The demand was dependent on the modeling of the virus, as well as the need to deal with other pressures that are in the next winter and the resumption of more planning, surgery, surgery and other treatments for unlucky patients.

But the investigation listened to the Treasury, and the Prime Minister’s Special Office rejected this request, saying that they wanted more use from the interim Al -Adali hospitals with the private sector.

Mrs. Pershard has been informed that the decision will be considered again as part of the wider spending review in the fall of 2021.

She described the decision “very disappointing”, saying that the waiting lists for the treatment of NHS planned in England will be in a “completely different position” today if it was agreed on additional financing.

“If we have this ability, we are certain that we have treated thousands of patients … in addition to being more flexible in going to the second wave of the epidemic and in winter in general,” said Ms. Pershard.

In the summer of 2020, NHS in England had a total permanent bed capacity to treat about 95,000 patients in severe hospitals.

This has increased by 4000 other people in the winter of 2023, under a recovery plan agreed upon by then Prime Minister Rishi Sonak.

Later on her evidence, Mrs. Bretshard said that the health service faced a period of “severe pressure” in the winter of 2020-21, as another wave of Covid spread throughout the country.

By this point, new treatments were discovered, including cheap steroid dexamethasone, and the first Covid vaccines began in small numbers.

But the level of society’s transition at that time means that some intensive care units are still pushed to “the brink of the abyss” and it was “on the edge of” running out of the bed area.

On the national level, the health service has never had to “systematically limit” the treatments because hospitals cannot deal with the demand, according to Mrs. British.

She added: “This does not mean, though, that he did not feel completely overwhelmed by employees at this time in those places – and this does not mean that this type of care that was provided was like the natural matter.”

Mrs. Bretshard was also asked about the seven interim nitagel hospitals that were quickly built, in March and April 2020, all over England to treat Covid patients.

The data in the inquiry shows the total cost of taxpayers, including creating and stopping operation, now estimated at 358.5 million pounds.

Hospitals – in Birmingham, Bristol, Exter, Harugate, London, Manchester and Sindland – treated 141 patients in the first wave of the virus and 1097 patients and other patients in the second wave.

In total, 50.4 million pounds was spent on one site, Birmingham, which patients did not use in the epidemic.

The site in Bristol also conducted 6,554 patients with patients from Al Ain Hospital in the city.

Mrs. Bretshard told the investigation that the program is still “useful”, as the sites were imagined as “military field hospitals” at that time.

“We thought we were doing this to avoid the situation of northern Italy,” she said, referring to the viewer in Lombardy, where intensive care units were sunken.