today's report from @CommonsHealth @CommonsSTC sets out clearly and convincingly the strengths and many weaknesses of the govt's response to covid (1) blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/10/12…
there are however two significant omissions: first, the UK's response was among the most centralised in the world, and better decisions would have been made by involving devolved administrations, regional mayors and councils (2)
second and most importantly, the committees should have given more emphasis to the PM's role: absent initially, slow to realise seriousness of covid, and in charge of chaotic and dysfunctional processes in govt (3)
the PM was dominant figure in govt and failed to develop a coherent strategy supported by credible implementation plans. He carries a large measure of responsibility for the errors rightly identified by the committees @GregClarkMP @Jeremy_Hunt (4)
Yes there was groupthink and fatalism and and erroneous consensus in early stages of covid but the concentration of power in the PM means the buck
stops with him and the small number of people he chose to work with (5)
stops with him and the small number of people he chose to work with (5)
the successes of the covid response like vaccine development and deployment should be celebrated and lessons learned and applied, especially the value of teams of teams using different sources of expertise (6)
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