The capacity of UK health systems to deal with a pandemic was more of an issue than organisational reforms before the Covid-19 outbreak, an expert has said.
Professor Dame Jenny Harries, who was deputy chief medical officer from 2019 to 2021 and is now chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that a number of changes created uncertainty, but she did not consider that to be the main issue.
