Delaying routine care was least bad of ‘awful options’, Matt Hancock tells Covid inquiry

Inquiry chair challenges ex-health secretary over his assertion NHS was available to all during pandemicCancelling non-urgent treatment of patients during the pandemic was the “least bad” of a series of “awful options”, Matt Hancock has admitted.In his third and at times combative appearance at the Covid-19 inquiry, in which he repeatedly interrupted inquiry counsel, Jacqueline Carey KC, the former health secretary defended his decision to allow the NHS to postpone routine treatment and care from April 2020. Continue reading...