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Opening statements delivered in Module 3 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on healthcare

Public hearings in Module 3 of the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry started on Monday 9 September 2024, with opening statements from Counsel to the Inquiry, Jacqueline Carey KC, and core participants.  The hearings will last for ten weeks.

Module 3 will consider the governmental and societal response to Covid-19 as well as dissecting the impact that the pandemic had on healthcare systems, patients and healthcare workers. This will include healthcare governance, infection prevention and control, primary care, NHS backlogs, the effects on healthcare provision by vaccination programmes as well as long covid diagnosis and support.

The module will see Professor Sir Chris Whitty, Vaughan Gething, Matt Hancock, Sir Sajid Javid and others, alongside a range of impact and expert witnesses, give oral evidence.

A number of Doughty Street barristers are instructed in Module 3: