Tell me there will be people held to account!! Corruption!!

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I am incensed!!! This is staggering waste of public money!!!!!! Staggering.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cll476qzm85o

you presumably want medical staff to be using fresh, sterile indate equipment and medication on you when you need treatment. What did you think happened to the outdated, no longer sterile stuff?

Did they do that here or am I missing a big pharmacy in a field?

Which they didn't provide in a timely manner meaning millions got sick.
Then they overbought to give select companies (friends) billions of taxpayer money and leave it in a field in an area of beauty to cause environmental issues and be burnt. Not hard to see the multiple failings.

Good old fashioned Civil Servants would have insisted on a proper procurement process being followed.

Sadly the media and public backlash of demanding the gmt find PPE asap meant corners were cut.

If the NHS on a standard day used a million items of PPE and during Covid that went up to 5 million a day, plus non-NHS also having increased demand, it was obviously not possible to increase production 4 fold unless short cuts were taken.

It shouldn't have been such a panic though because we have National, regularly refreshed, stocks of PPE and other supplies for just this purpose in order to buy the time to replenish in an orderly fashion.

Only we didn't have that emergency stock...

From the OP: The link is to the BBC website regarding useable PPE costing £1.4 billion being wasted, being incinerated. Not forgetting the further £100million in sorting the PPE.

Seems like a pretty good clue to me

Exactly, that's what I do. Why on earth would I throw expired medication, needles and syringes out of a car window ?

If it's not fit for an operating theatre it could be used elsewhere. At the very least it should have been distributed to care homes and anywhere else that uses PPE.

Me, I'd be happy to bulk buy boxes of nitrile gloves as I go through loads for work. They cost minimum £6 at B&M for a box of 100. Before covid I could get a box for £2.99.

No one could have predicted the level of demand and the duration it would be required for.

This. Companies who had been supplying the NHS for decades were sidelined, unable to speak to anyone, unable to get anyone to place an order, while money was given to these grifters who knew nothing about PPE.
See also Dido Harding and the contact tracing.

If Labour win I hope there is an enquiry and people named and shamed.

Let’s not forget that Labour don’t exactly have a great record when it comes to waste either, £10bn on a failed NHS IT project? The government will waste money regardless of what flavour they are, no doubt we’ll see similar happen under Starmer.

No one could have predicted the level of demand and the duration it would be required for.

Except they actually did. Feb 2016, just under 4 years before the covid-19 pandemic, the UK government ordered a pandemic planning exercise to highlight actions that needed to be taken to prepare the country for a respiratory (Coronabvirus) outbreak.

Observations from that exercise...

"Level and use of personal protective equipment (PPE) was central to the exercise dialogue and considered of crucial importance for front line staff. It was noted that the leaming from Ebola on infection control understanding, although improved, is still not embedded with staff. Clear instruction for PPE level and use was recommended. Access to sufficient levels of appropriate PPE was also considered and pandemic stockpiles were suggested as a means to ensure sufficient quantities were available."