The PPE procurement scandal—who pays and who profits?

“Had to stop CPR today for a full five minutes on a patient who arrested when someone realised he had covid symptoms. No PPE on the resus trolley. The full resuscitation team were exposed to aerosolised covid. Finally found some FFP3 masks locked in a cupboard because the matrons had been told they were ‘too valuable’ to leave lying around. He died.”These are the words of a medical registrar in an NHS hospital in March 2020. They remind us how fine the margins for error are in running a health service. A health professional whose actions kill a patient can expect to be investigated and potentially disbarred by their professional regulator. But what about the politicians who implemented the creation of a deeply flawed system for procurement during a pandemic that failed to consistently supply stocks of usable personal protective equipment (PPE)?1We only know how the NHS procurement system failed…
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