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The Secret Consultant

Covid inquiry evidence about leaders’ petty preoccupations fills me with fury

Simon Stevens giving evidence to the Covid inquiry
The former NHS England boss Simon Stevens giving evidence to the Covid inquiry this week. Photograph: PA

I have been reading the testimonies submitted to the Covid inquiry with rising anger this week. I think back to the meetings we had in our hospital as the pandemic approached in early 2020.

We had never experienced this before – nobody had. We were terrified. And yet, as I recall, we calmly and methodically tried to anticipate how we could best use what we had to meet the incoming tide.

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