The Inquiry is a huge undertaking. The sheer size of just this module’s report is testament to the work put in, not just by Baroness Hallett and her team but also by the core participants (including @bma.org.uk’s team) and bereaved families. Module 3 will be next: impact on the NHS.

The recommendations seem good: better communication with the public, better four-nation working, and more effort to understand and protect vulnerable groups being ones that stand out.
The lessons are clear too, including the basics: have a strategy, be prepared to act decisively.

The governments in all four nations had multiple opportunities to learn from the mistakes from before the first lockdown. Unforgivably we still saw further lockdowns, when the Inquiry finds that they, too, could have been avoided if governments had learned and acted sooner.

Only on the model with hydrocoptic marzelvanes.

Tomorrow’s special representative meeting / conference hopes to tease out a bit of the detail but a lot is not yet known

It’s moved things further than you might think. The aim is for a radical GMS contract renegotiation to deal with the issues that have built up, but will need investment in GP (which the 10YHP includes, although unclear if shifting money from hospitals and if so, how not to destabilise them)

GPs in England did so last year; it has been considered elsewhere – different governments are in different places and the BMA tailors its approach to the situation in each nation