MENTAL health campaigners today accused Covid-19 inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett of a “U-turn” over the mental health impact of the pandemic.

Baroness Hallet has ruled that “Module 3 cannot include the issue of the impact of the pandemic on adult mental health services within its broad provisional outline of scope and the hearing time available.”

Mind and Rethink Mental Illness joined forces with the Centre for Mental Health and the Association of Mental Health Providers to urge Baroness Hallett to rethink how the Covid Inquiry will deal with the issue.