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Whitehall has been ordered to release confidential documents warning that the UK’s health system could not cope with a pandemic.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...abs-may-not-have-to-quarantine-says-scientist
The information commissioner ordered the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to release documents from Exercise Cygnus after it had previously refused. The three-day simulation exercise in 2016 assessed the UK’s ability to cope with an influenza pandemic, but its findings are pertinent to the coronavirus crisis.
Lawyers for an NHS doctor, Moosa Qureshi, had made a request under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act demanding to see the Cygnus report in April last year. The two documents he was seeking deal with how adult social care would cope with a pandemic and how the NHS would “triage” patients – how it would decide on treatments if it was overwhelmed and resources were limited.
The DHSC refused to disclose the surge planning documents, citing section 36 of the FoI act, which provides an exemption if disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs.
www.theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...abs-may-not-have-to-quarantine-says-scientist
The information commissioner ordered the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to release documents from Exercise Cygnus after it had previously refused. The three-day simulation exercise in 2016 assessed the UK’s ability to cope with an influenza pandemic, but its findings are pertinent to the coronavirus crisis.
Lawyers for an NHS doctor, Moosa Qureshi, had made a request under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act demanding to see the Cygnus report in April last year. The two documents he was seeking deal with how adult social care would cope with a pandemic and how the NHS would “triage” patients – how it would decide on treatments if it was overwhelmed and resources were limited.
The DHSC refused to disclose the surge planning documents, citing section 36 of the FoI act, which provides an exemption if disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs.
Government ordered to release secret pandemic planning files
Whitehall had refused to publish documents from 2016 exercise that warned health system would not cope
www.theguardian.com