Health secretary Steve Barclay has acknowledged the issue of excess deaths as a resurfaced summer report indicates that the NHS has anticipated £1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) for COVID-19 compensation claims.
On Monday in a speech at the Spectator Health Summit in London, Barclay said that “one shared point of understanding must be the scale of the COVID backlog, with around now 7.1 million patients.”
“We must also be transparent coming out of COVID around excess deaths,” he said.
“For example, we know from the data that there are more 50- to 64-yearolds with cardiovascular issues. It’s the result of delays in that age group seeing a GP because of the pandemic and in some cases, not getting statins for hypertension in time,” he added….