It’s a year since the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, and a year since the last, big events on the UK calendar were allowed to go ahead. Since then, at least 125,000 people have died of the disease. There are many questions to ask about the government’s handling of the crisis. This week, the Public Accounts Committee made a start with: what is NHS Test and Trace delivering for its “unimaginable” funding of £37 billion?
Think-tanks, management and medical bodies have also questioned whether chancellor Rishi Sunak will be able to make his healthcare funding proposals stick. Most commentators believe the NHS will need more money to recover, particularly as it risks becoming a service of last resort. We have new analysis on why that’s bad news for reform and the health tech to support it.
