Hancock claims everyone got Covid care they needed - that’s not true - The Independent

Health secretary Matt Hancock has been criticised for making untrue claims during his appearance before MPs on Thursday.

Health secretary Matt Hancock claimed on Thursday that “everybody got the Covid treatment that they needed” and that he had never been advised people were not receiving care.

But an official national report into the impact of coronavirus on maternity services last year did make clear that in at least one woman’s case she was twice denied intensive care when her doctors believed she needed it, because of a lack of beds.

It said: “She deteriorated a few days later and was documented to need high dependency or intensive care but no beds were available in either high dependency or intensive care areas.”.

She deteriorated further, and was eventually transferred to intensive care where she died a few days later.

Health secretary Matt Hancock has been criticised for making untrue claims during his appearance before MPs on Thursday