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Coronavirus: lessons learnt

Inquiry by the Health and Social Care Committee and Science and Technology Committee (Commons), 6 October 2020 to 28 May 2024. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 13 October 2020: Theresa Steed, Tunbridge Wells Care Centre; Philip Scott, carer; Helen Spalding, carer; Professor David Oliver, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; Kathy Roberts, Care Providers Alliance; Jane Townson, UK Homecare Association; Professor Jane Cummings, Department for Health and Social Care; Michelle Dyson, Department for Health and Social Care; David Pearson; Helen Whately, Department for Health and Social Care
  • 21 October 2020: Dr Max Roser, Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development; Professor David Heymann, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Professor Mark Woolhouse OBE, University of Edinburgh; Professor John Edmunds OBE, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Sir Ian Diamond, Office of National Statistics; Professor Axel Gandy, Imperial College London; Dr Clare Gardiner, Joint Biosecurity Centre
  • 4 November 2020: Professor Peter Horby, University of Oxford; Professor Andrew Pollard, University of Oxford; Professor Robin Shattock, Imperial College London; Professor Wei Shen Lim, Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation; Kate Bingham, UK Vaccine Taskforce
  • 10 November 2020: Professor Dame Anne Johnson, University College London; Professor Sir Chris Ham, Coventry and Warwickshire Health and Care Partnership; Professor Sir Chris Ham, The King's Fund; Professor Dominic Harrison, Darwen Borough Council; Baroness Harding of Winscombe, NHS Test and Trace; Dr Susan Hopkins, NHS Test and Trace; Professor Sir John Bell, University of Oxford; Professor Jo Martin, Royal College of Pathologists; Professor Gerard Krause, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research; Professor Gerard Krause, Institute for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, TWINCORE, Hanover
  • 24 November 2020: Professor Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh; Alex Thomas, Institute for Government; Matt Hancock, Department for Health and Social Care; Dr Jenny Harries, Department for Health and Social Care; Clara Swinson, Department for Health and Social Care
  • 1 December 2020: James O'Rourke, family carer; Steve Scown, Dimensions UK; Iain Bell, Office for National Statistics; Professor Kevin Fenton, Public Health England; Dr Habib Naqvi, NHS Race and Health Observatory, NHS Confederation; Professor Doctor Ramani Mooneshinghe, NHS England and NHS Improvement
  • 2 December 2020: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England (2010-2019); Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Adviser (2013-2017); Sir Oliver Letwin, Cabinet Office Minister (2010-2016); Lord Mark Sedwill, Cabinet Secretary (2018-2020)
  • 9 December 2020: Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser; Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England; Dr Jenny Harries, Department for Health and Social Care; Dr June Raine, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
  • 26 January 2021: Sir Simon Stevens, NHS England
  • 26 May 2021: Dominic Cummings, Former Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister
  • 10 June 2021: Matt Hancock, Department for Health and Social Care
  • 30 November 2022: Professor Sir John Bell, University of Oxford; Dr Dame Jenny Harries OBE, UK Health and Security Agency; Dr Thomas Waite, Department for Health and Social Care; Neil O'Brien, Department for Health and Social Care; Michelle Dyson, Department for Health and Social Care; Clara Swinson, Department for Health and Social Care; Dame Kate Bingham, UK Vaccine Taskforce
  • 4 March 2024: witnesses not listed