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Sharon Collins witnessed first-hand the devastation that took hold in hospitals when her father died after catching coronavirus on a ward, and says ITV's Breathtaking is 'real life'

ITV's Breathtaking exposes the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. As the number of people needing hospital care for the virus soared, hospital patients were discharged to care homes to free up vital beds, but this sparked deadly consequences among the elderly

As ITV's drama Breathtaking airs, we look at what the Covid PPE scandal actually was, where the millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money went, why equipment didn't reach desperate NHS workers and who is being held to account