These bodies are supposed to ensure the needs of patients are being met. Yet this work is being neglected.
The Prime Minister counters that the advice was changed, referrals fell, and that deaths in care settings have fallen.
If enough of us download this app, we can, through our joint endeavours and the trace and test programme, suppress the virus.
Here in the West Midlands we are seeing construction resuming, the housing market restarting and our all-important car industry reviving.
Rolling out enough tests with enough trackers, and then putting effective self-isolation in place, is very much a process rather than an event.
Plus: Sturgeon’s failures as a leader and her successes as a communicator. And: the lobby has a reshuffle.
A successful test, track and quarantine policy would open the door to local paths out of this national shutdown.
The Government has to generate revenue quickly, but austerity and spending cuts are not viable options.
Contact tracing will help the Government to take control of Covid-19. It must ensure the system does not continue indefinitely, however.
If only 6,000 people, with 45 contacts each, are infected every day, we will need a capacity of 276,000 tests just to keep up.
The government’s initial response was in fact admirably Burkean. The full force of law was used sparingly. And you know what? It did the trick.
One area that has had relatively little attention, but could get much more, is the behaviour of commercial landlords across the country.
There has been immense optimism around a vaccine. But without that, societies must consider how to live with this disease.