UK wasted £9.9 billion on Covid PPE, finds inquiry; stockpile, procurement flaws flagged

Covid PPE procurement saw ‘vast’ £10bn waste, inquiry finds

UK wasted £10bn on PPE that left NHS staff poorly protected, Covid inquiry finds

The lives of NHS staff and patients were put at risk in the pandemic because of a lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), with

Covid Inquiry: Conservative government ‘wasted’ billions on PPE

The latest Covid inquiry report has found that billions of pounds the UK spent on personal protective equipment were wasted.

Government wasted £10,000,000,000 on PPE during Covid pandemic

The UK wasted almost £10bn during their scramble to secure PPE during the Covid pandemic

The UK’s Covid Inquiry has criticised ‘vast’ waste in PPE procurement during the pandemic.

UK ‘wasted’ nearly £10bn on PPE during pandemic, inquiry says

‘Vast’ sums squandered in health crisis, report finds, as it criticises so-called VIP lane for procurement