Covid-19: A year is too long to wait for UK inquiry’s recommendations, say bereaved families

The public inquiry into the UK’s handling of the covid pandemic should make swifter recommendations from its first tranche of hearings so that lessons can be learnt and acted on, representatives of bereaved families have urged.Heather Hallett, a retired Court of Appeal judge and crossbench peer who is chairing the UK Covid-19 Inquiry,12 has promised to publish regular reports and recommendations as the inquiry progresses and to “work hard to ensure the whole of the UK can learn useful lessons from the pandemic as quickly as possible.”3 The inquiry’s first module, which focused on resilience and preparedness, concluded last month, and the inquiry expects to publish its report on the module in early summer 2024.But the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK and Northern Ireland group—one of the core participants in the first module—argues that, for people who have lost loved ones to covid, next summer is too long to…
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