We need more information, transparency and scrutiny. A committee on the model of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards is required.
Its model has achieved vastly superior results and at a significantly lower cost in human lives.
Those on the frontline deserve to be protected, be it from assault or a virus – and we shouldn’t forget or negate that.
We have to ask whether high bed occupancy rates in the NHS are tilting the balance between efficiency and resilience in the wrong direction.