Doctors started writing their wills in 2020, UK Covid inquiry told

Banfield, the chair of the BMA council, at a pay rally for junior doctors earlier this year. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Doctors started writing their wills and making sure their life insurance was up to date when the pandemic began in 2020 because they understood “what was coming”, the UK Covid inquiry heard on Thursday.

Giving evidence to the inquiry, Prof Philip Banfield, from the British Medical Association, said: “We had no doubt that we were facing something that was completely unprecedented.”