Hancock faces cross-examination by MPs on Thursday who have already heard claims from the prime minister’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings that assurances he received that pandemic planning was up to date were “completely hollow”.
As recently as March, PHE refused to name the exercises or say what they were about, but it released information when challenged in May by Qureshi.
Other exercises include three on Ebola, four on pandemic influenza, two on Lassa, an acute viral haemorrhagic illness, three on bird flu and one that dealt with a radiation incident, nicknamed Exercise Cerberus.
The public health body is now facing calls to publish the reports on the exercises and share them with experts.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock - who faced a grilling from MPs today about No10 s failures throughout the Covid pandemic - has only ever confessed to an operation against flu.
10 Jan 2021
Coronavirus patients could be chosen for treatment based off of their potential value to society or by “lottery” if hospitals are overrun, an emergency protocol drafted by Britain’s socialised health care system has warned.
The emergency triage document was first published in the
Journal for Medical Ethics in November but is now being sent to National Health Service (NHS) hospitals across the country.
The document said that when resources are sufficient, then health decisions should be based solely on what is best for every patient, according to
The Telegraph.
However, the document went on to say that “When resources are insufficient, decisions need to include a broader view on what is ethically fair for the wider community (society).”
6 Jan 2021, 10:59
Updated: 6 Jan 2021, 12:55
CORONAVIRUS patients could be selected for treatment by a lottery system in the event the health service is overwhelmed by cases.
Emergency protocol guidance sent to specialists across the NHS states that fair decisions will need to be made in times of inadequate resources .
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Patients could be selected by a lottery system if they need treatmentCredit: EPA
The draft triage document is intended as a practical guide for clinicians on how patients should be selected if there are insufficient resources available.
It provides a step-by-step procedure for ranking patients on an ethical system and eventually getting them through to the treatment stage.