As nurses and doctors worked to resuscitate a man passed out on the linoleum floor of the UCSF Parnassus Medical Center waiting room, the words of a patient waiting to be seen pierced through: "We're all going to die here."
Fiona Wilcox, Senior Coroner for Inner West London, issued a Prevention of Future Deaths report to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, in which she said there were not enough beds or nurses to manage demand in A&E in both cases. She warned that while hospitals like St George's had put in place measures to try to manage demand, A&E departments were still exceptionally busy and a risk of further deaths remained.
Mr Manknell found that many working at the prison, including senior management staff, were unaware that Belmarsh had a policy which meant racist prisoners should be marked as high risk and should only be placed in cells with prisoners of the same ethnicity. Following an inquest into Mr Ghuman's death, it was found that Belmarsh failed when carrying out Hilden's CSRA assessment in 2019 after he moved to the prison from HMP High Down.
The UK's response to Covid was too little, too late, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives. The document also has stinging criticism of a toxic and chaotic culture inside Boris Johnson's Downing Street which it said the then prime minister actively embraced in which the loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined.
