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On Monday, the public inquiry into the pandemic will commence its 10-week inquiry, focusing on the effect on patients, healthcare workers, and the wider NHS. Since the emergence of the virus in 2020, Covid patients have been hospitalized in the UK for more than a million times, while countless others have had care for unrelated illnesses disrupted. Additionally, the inquiry’s third stage will examine the impact on NHS staff, the use of PPE and masks in hospitals, the policy of shielding the most vulnerable, and long Covid treatment.
For the first time, the inquiry will consist of stories shared by thousands of healthcare staff, relatives, and patients. BBC News interviewed some of them, with community midwife Mandi Masters from Buckinghamshire sharing her experience of Covid exposure and recovery. Diagnosed with Covid while on the job, she experienced a three-week hospitalization and found it frightening. Although she has returned to work part-time, she still finds it challenging to breathe.
The inquiry’s third section will assess the impact of healthcare workers in detail and cover aspects such as the diagnosis and treatment of Covid and long-Covid patients, hospitals’ use of PPE and infection control, the shielding of vulnerable individuals, and more. Furthermore, the inquiry will examine the impact of the pandemic on the wider healthcare system, which includes the anticipated increase in delays and waiting lists.
More than 50 witnesses, including scientists, politicians, medical experts, and healthcare workers, are slated to testify over the following 10 weeks, with families of the bereaved representing over 7,000 relatives who are worried about the public inquiry’s failure to “consider the lived experience of ordinary families.” Nonetheless, the inquiry’s secretary, Ben Connah, emphasizes the importance of the contribution of over 30,000 healthcare workers, patients, and relatives who have anonymously shared their stories with the inquiry
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