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Hancock thought he should decide who lived or died if NHS overwhelmed, Covid inquiry told – video
The former NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said that the then health secretary thought if decisions had to be taken during Covid about who would live and who would die it should be a ministerial matter, and not for doctors.
Answering a question during a Covid-19 inquiry hearing, Stevens said luckily the NHS never got to a position where anyone had to take such decisions, but that he had disagreed with Matt Hancock.
The hearings on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week have been bad for Hancock’s reputation, 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
Read the original article at The Guardian