[9] Bingham worked in business development for Vertex Pharmaceuticals and consultants Monitor Company before joining Schroder Ventures in 1991 (now SV Health Investors).
[3] According to leaked documents seen in November 2020 by The Sunday Times, Bingham charged taxpayers £670,000 for a team of eight full-time consultants from London public relations agency Admiral Associates.
[20] In his 2024 memoir Unleashed, Johnson wrote that criticism of this expenditure was unwarranted because "she was in fact trying to gauge public sentiment about vaccines – an absolutely crucial consideration given some of the challenges we were to face in the subsequent roll-out".
[21] Dame Kate's account of the risks, criticism and political interference she faced are discussed in her book The Long Shot which was published in October 2022 with all proceeds going to the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering.
[11] She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for "services to the procurement, manufacture and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines",[24][25] Bingham was also admitted to the Freedom of the City of London in that year.
[33][34] She published her account of the seven months she spent chairing the Vaccine Taskforce in her book The Long Shot, in which she shared lessons for future pandemics and offered advice on how government could work more successfully with industry.