Pandemic preparedness: doctor leads campaign for UK government to release report
Clare Dyer
Abstract
Lawyers for an NHS doctor are threatening legal action over the government’s failure to release an unpublished report on Exercise Cygnus, a 2016 exercise to test the UK’s preparedness for a flu pandemic. Leigh Day, solicitors for Moosa Qureshi, have written a pre-action letter to Matt Hancock, the health and social care secretary for England, demanding that he release the report on Exercise Cygnus. If he does not, the solicitors say, Hancock will face an urgent application for judicial review of the decision not to publish it. The Telegraph has reported that the findings, which followed a three …
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