The best solution to the issue in my eyes is the National Oversight Mechanism as called for by @inquest-org.bsky.social which you can learn more about on the link below.

www.inquest.org.uk/no-more-deat...

There's also been 24 previous inquiries established under the act.

That's a lot of expense, time and process.

Surprisingly there is no body in existence who has the job of tracking recommendations, seeing if government implement them and hold government’s to account.

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Of those 18, 6 were established by the devolved Scottish Government and 3 by the devolved NI Executive office or NI office.

4 are now commissioned by the Home Office.

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Bizarre echange between Hancock and the chair when MH claims the NHS was available to all according to need. Chair highlights cancer treatments delayed, hip operations cancelled etc and MH doubling down to suggest he is right and was still available to all according to need.

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Hancock is like the mayor in Nightmare before Christmas, seemingly suggesting "I'm only an elected official here, I can't make decisions by myself"

A quintessential politician where everything that goes well is his glory to claim but everything wrong is someone else's fault.

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Wow.

"My job was to protect the NHS from some of that" meaning Interference from 10 Downing Street.

That's a pretty incredible statement for the health secretary during a pandemic to say.

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Hancock says that some of the political appointments made by No 10 caused "incredible difficulties" with the testing programme.

Something that will no doubt be revisited in module 7.

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It's been a very different start to his previous appearances, with Counsel to the Inquiry (CTI) asking Hancock to set out his general position in numerous areas.

Hancock seems relatively rattled and feeling the strain more than previous appearances but still some classic political type answers.

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The press have engaged more with today however, and the BBC has live coverage of Hancocks appearance which you can find on the link below:

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

By and large this module has attracted less press interest than previous modules, perhaps caused a little by the "yesterday's man" syndrome we see around ex-ministers as well as the deep dive nature into structures.

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In press this morning @the-tuc.bsky.social Asisstant General Secretary Kate Bell called on Hancock to be up front with the inquiry saying "Mr Hancock must explain the political decisions he and other ministers took before and during the virus".

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It seems the modular approach is having some benefits and there is evidence the inquiry is learning as it goes about the issues workers faced during the pandemic.

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It's been promising to see the amount of questions that Counsel to the Inquiry has asked about the HSE and processes such as RIDDOR, something which felt absent in earlier modules.

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This module has felt like a significant deep dive into several areas such as NHS structures, PPE for healthcare staff, how the virus transmitted between people and, crucially for us @the-tuc.bsky.social, the role of the Health and Safety Executive.

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Module 3 has felt different to the previous modules that the inquiry has held.

Module 1 into pandemic preparedness and resilience felt very much like a scene setting module whilst Module 2, into Government decision making, was very much the most political module we will see.

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This will be the third time Hancock has appeared before the inquiry and it's unlikely this will be the last time given module 6 is investigating Social Care and Module 7 will be a deeper dive into the test and trace and isolate policies than we've had in previous modules.

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