Chief nurse again uses this argument that she won't disclose how many NHS staff have died from Covid-19 because families haven’t all been asked for permission - feels like a very weird argument, nobody is asking for identities, rather anonymised figures
The reason it would be useful to have figures is because it’s one of the few metrics we could use for how well-protected NHS staff are, particularly if you could compare numbers to health workers abroad
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