Hancock thought he should decide who lived or died if NHS overwhelmed, Covid inquiry told

Описание: The former NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has said Matt Hancock thought that if decisions had to be taken during Covid about who would live and who would die that should be a ministerial matter and not for doctors. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub

Answering a question during a Covid-19 inquiry hearing, Stevens said luckily the NHS never got to a position where anyone did have to take these decisions, but that he had disagreed with Hancock who was the health secretary at the time.

The hearings on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week have been bad for the reputation of Hancock, as Dominic Cummings and Helen MacNamara also accused him of misleading colleagues about what the health department was doing about the threat posed by the virus.

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