Covid-19: Bereaved families group collects BMJ award for holding ministers to account

A group representing families bereaved by the covid-19 pandemic has received an award from The BMJ for its campaigning work this year.Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, one of the core participants in the first two modules of the covid-19 public inquiry, was given the award at The BMJ’s annual event for friends of the journal in London on Wednesday 13 December.Naomi Fulop, a spokesperson for the group, collected the journal’s Get Up Stand Up award, named after Bob Marley’s protest song, from the editor in chief, Kamran Abbasi, who praised the group for its efforts in holding those in power to account.“We await the conclusions and lessons [of the inquiry], which obviously won’t be released until the end, but we need a serious conversation now about the nature of our democracy, the nature of the scientific advice to support it, and the nature of the institutions that support our democracy,”…
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