Behind Closed Wards

The main problem with public inquiries is they can unearth all the facts & make recommendations but they can’t enforce them. Plus once their reports are delivered they cease to exist. No independent group takes over monitoring whether these recommendations have been delivered.

Public inquiries: are we confusing investigation with accountability? The question is not whether Wales should have an inquiry simply for the sake of having one. It is whether the process chosen is capable of answering the questions that remain & delivering the outcomes required

6 yrs ago today Dad died from hospital-acquired Covid 6 yrs on the legal fight continues Painfully slow & unnecessarily complex The injustice to him & toll on my family continue. This is the gruelling reality of what pursuing accountability actually involves. @AneurinBevanUHB

Well in Wales @MarkDrakeford & @vaughangething couldn’t possibly have put a protective ring around care homes. They didn’t even have a list of them! Hadn’t prepared so just cherry picked “the science” to bide time. Not one Welsh media outlet has reported on the criticisms of WG!

ONLY IN WALES! As @covidinquiryuk care sector report looms on Tuesday, a look back at @careforumwales’s own criticism of @WelshLabour’s handling of the pandemic- and its inexplicable decision to honour Mark Drakeford as a “COVID HERO”. From criticism to coronation. 🧵

I’m shaking with anger. This is what killed my father in Oct 2020. Despite everything we’ve exposed and campaigned for over the last 6 years, nothing has changed. What’s worse- this is by design. #LetTheEvidencePileHighThenBuryIt #£220mDownTheDrain @SafeDavid3 @barryjmjones

The biggest scandal isn’t £10bn wasted on PPE. It’s that the UK Covid Inquiry ignored the true cost: not the PPE that was thrown away, but the PPE that wasn’t. Decision-makers knew COVID is airborne. They knew the PPE was wrong. Yet lied to healthcare workers that they were safe

Module 5 hearings last March revealed Wales had zero in-date FFP3 masks in its stockpile- a fact ignored by Welsh media. But the scandal isn’t just the shortage. It’s a systemic testing failure and data falsification to use the masks anyway. Thanks @SafeDavid3

Baroness Hallett has delivered her findings on UK pandemic procurement. The 11 strict recommendations build a blueprint for resilient logistics but a rigid change to the tracking schedule means Module 5 will completely escape any monitoring before the Inquiry closes in mid-2027🧵

🚨 WHY ARE WE NOW WAITING A YEAR FOR A MODULE 2 UPDATE? The promise of a modular UK Covid inquiry? Don't wait until the end. Publish recommendations as each report is completed. Then report progress every six months. That timetable has quietly changed. Why does that matter? 👇

One of the most important decisions made before the UK Covid Inquiry @covidinquiryuk heard a single witness was how it would be structured. This is the first thread in a series examining the decisions that shaped the Inquiry before evidence was heard. 🧵

The former @WelshLabour Government launched a "Covid-19 Inquiry Implementation Dashboard" back on 7 April this year. But it was slipped onto the website quietly, with zero public announcement, zero press release, and zero ministerial statement. gov.wales/covid-19-public-in…

My father contracted COVID in hospital & died in Oct 2020 Since then I've spent years immersed in UK Covid Inquiry hearings, evidence, reports & government responses. One question matters more to me than any other: How do we know if the right changes are actually happening? 🧵