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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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COVID-19 – A massive failure of risk management?

Plan B Consulting

I wanted to write about risk management and what I perceive is a massive failure of the process and implementation in ensuring that organisations were ready for a pandemic. They didn’t seem to be prepared for even the most obvious issues associated with a pandemic.

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COVID-19 – A massive failure of risk management?

Plan B Consulting

I wanted to write about risk management and what I perceive is a massive failure of the process and implementation in ensuring that organisations were ready for a pandemic. Pandemic an identified risk. They didn’t seem to be prepared for even the most obvious issues associated with a pandemic.