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<\/p>\n30 April 2026<\/p>\n
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Garden Court North\u2019s inquests and public inquiries\u2019 team represents the Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK at the Covid Inquiry. Credit: William Barton \/ Shutterstock.<\/p>\n
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The Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Baroness Hallett, published her report<\/a> into Module 4 on 16 April 2026, concluding that the prompt development and rollout of vaccines was \u201can extraordinary feat\u201d but that governments and health services must rebuild public trust in vaccines.<\/p>\n The report found that vaccine uptake was lower in communities with greater levels of deprivation and some ethnic minority groups, which were \u201cpredictable disparities\u201d that \u201cmust be addressed before the next pandemic\u201d.<\/p>\n An underlying lack of trust in\u00a0governments and health systems across the UK left some communities more susceptible to false information about the Covid vaccines, resulting in significant inequalities of vaccine uptake, the report added.<\/p>\n \u201cFor many, their concern centred on the safety of vaccines and possible side-effects,\u201d Baroness Hallett said. \u201cTo some extent, this lack of confidence in Covid-19 vaccinations was a global issue, fuelled by the rapid sharing of false information online. However, it\u2019s clear that a lack of trust and confidence in authority was also a significant contributing factor in the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018Vaccines and Therapeutics\u2019: five recommendations<\/p>\n In her report, Baroness Hallett made five key recommendations:<\/p>\n Establishing an expert advisory panel The Module 4 report also found that the current Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, which compensates members of the public damage by the vaccine, is \u201cnot sufficiently supportive\u201d and \u201crequires urgent reform\u201d. Baroness Hallett recommended that maximum payouts be increased from the current upper limit of \u00a3120,000 to at least \u00a3200,000.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Rare praise for UK\u2019s response to Covid-19 in Module 4 report<\/p>\n The report hailed\u00a0the UK\u2019s vaccine and therapeutic programmes as \u201ctwo of the success stories of the pandemic\u201d.<\/p>\n Ordinarily, the development and rollout of a nationwide vaccine would take between 10 to 20 years. Decades of global research and preparation in mRNA vaccine preparation and vaccine platform technologies were fundamental to the UK\u2019s rapid Covid-19 vaccine response, the Module 4 report found, enabling the authorisation and roll-out of effective vaccines within a year of the UK\u2019s first identified Covid-19 case.<\/p>\n In 2021, 132 million Covid-19 vaccinations were administered across the four nations, making it the largest vaccination programme in UK history. By June 2022, approximately 87% of the UK population aged over 12 years had been vaccinated with two doses.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Module 4 report is the fourth of 10 reports to be published by the Covid-19 Inquiry, which finished taking evidence<\/a> in March. Garden Court North\u2019s\u00a0inquests and public inquiries\u2019 team<\/a>\u00a0represent the Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice (CBFFJ) UK in eight of the Inquiry\u2019s ten modules, instructed by Broudie Jackson Canter.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Additional media<\/p>\n UK Covid-19 Inquiry \u2013 Overall Covid vaccine programme a \u201csuccess story\u201d but public trust in vaccines must be rebuilt, Inquiry finds<\/a><\/p>\n UK Covid-19 Inquiry \u2013 Module 4 Report \u2013 Vaccines and Therapeutics<\/a><\/p>\n Broudie Jackson Canter \u2013 Covid Inquiry Publishes Fourth Report on Vaccines and Therapeutics<\/a><\/p>\n The Guardian \u2013 Trust in vaccines needs rebuilding despite \u2018extraordinary feat\u2019 of Covid jabs, inquiry finds<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n For further information, please contact\u00a0Alex Blair<\/a>, Communications Manager at Garden Court North Chambers:\u00a0ablair@gcnchambers.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Share this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 April 2026 Garden Court North\u2019s inquests and public inquiries\u2019 team represents the Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-25668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-uk","9":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116493413446284486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Module](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CBFFJ-Infographic-Covid-M4-Report-Vaccine-Facts-and-Misinformation-872x1200.jpg\")
Module 4 made several findings about vaccine misinformation. Credit: CBFFJ UK \/ X.<\/p>\n
\nImproving targeted communications
\nStrengthening monitoring of vaccine uptake
\nReforming compensation arrangements
\nBetter facilitating regulatory bodies\u2019 access to healthcare records<\/p>\n