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10 Jun, 9 tweets, 3 min read
On Matt Hancock repeating his “no national shortage of PPE”
And here.
Sigh. Hancock repeats the claim that the NAO has said there was no national shortage of PPE. Have been through this before. Yes the NAO said that NHS providers said they could get what they needed. They also said that that being the case front line workers reported shortages.
The NAO also wrote in November that "Demand for PPE was so high in April and May that stock levels were negligible for most types of PPE.”

In the same report Hancock cites NAO says: "There were 13,700 gowns available nationally against an estimated daily requirement of 454,500."
Here is a graph in the same report Hancock cites. It shows how in April and May there was virtually nothing left for centrally held stock of gowns and face masks.
And that’s just for the NHS. The NAO is completely clear, in its opening pages, how bad the PPE figures were in the early part of the pandemic for social care. They say social care only got 10% of its PPE requirement by comparison to 80% for the NHS.
Anyone following my reporting at the time or that of others will not be surprised by this. Indeed the poor provision for PPE for care homes vs NHS has been widely cited as one of the main drivers in the differences in deaths between workers in the two systems.
In other words Hancock is selectively quoting from the NAO report. In its entirety it does not support his case.

In any event if there were no national shortage and yet we know there were such local shortages is that not worse? The PPE was there just not distributed properly?
As I’ve said before, have some sympathy with Hancock’s argument that we sometimes forget how bad the PPE crisis was. A charge he then entirely undermines by saying there wasn’t a national shortage.

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The President is in the UK.
Biden says after he's done with the initial stages of his European trip he'll be going "to speak to Mr Putin to let him know what I want him to know."
Biden: "The US will respond in a robust and meaningful way when the Russian government engages in harmful activities...they'll be consequences for violating the sovereignty of democracies in the US, Europe and elsewhere."
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NEW: More than one million people booked a Covid vaccine yesterday through the NHS website- the most we've seen yet in a single day.

I'm old enough to remember when young people wouldn't want to get a jab.
Simon Stevens said young people had sent bookings to "blockbuster levels...the obvious enthusiasm of younger adults to get their jab has blown out of the water the suggestion that people in their 20s might not come forward to protect themselves and their loved ones."
Given what we know about the age profile of cases right now, this is really important news.

Works out at 45000 bookings an hour and around 750 a minute.
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An extraordinary and thoughtful letter to fans with clear political resonances: “I understand that on this island, we have a desire to protect our values and traditions — as we should — but that shouldn’t come at the expense of introspection and progress.” theplayerstribune.com/posts/dear-eng…
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In many ways, the key point or bit of context from the Health Select Committee report on burnout. Good will from staff matters because in so many respects that’s what the NHS/social care runs on.
NB this is one of the reasons many criticised the government’s 1% NHS settlement for England.

Committee notes that even before the pandemic, in January 2020. There were shortages of around “one in 10 or one in 12 staff” in the NHS.
Committee notes picture is similar in social care. Was estimated 112,000 roles in adult social care had been vacant in 2019-20. Staff turnover in social care of 30.4%, equating to 430,000 people leaving their jobs in care over the course of that year, 149k leaving care altogether
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UK increasingly an outlier in this approach. Many other Europeans countries and the United States changing rules on travel for the vaccinated at the least. Also notable difference in last year’s approach which included travel corridors when no-one had been vaccinated.
Question ministers haven’t articulated is what is the advice about this and what is the end game? Ie at one point will it be “safe” to travel again? What are the metrics? Our vaccination? Theirs? Will travel advice continue to be restrictive as long as there are VOCs?
Also worth nothing the (counter-intuitive) significant cost that often comes with “staycations”- especially this year with so much demand.
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