#test and trace

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NHS test and trace ‘failed its main objective’, says spending watchdog

Commons committee says system failed in cutting infection levels despite ‘eye-watering’ £37bn funding

NHS test and trace was set up in May last year as the UK emerged from the first lockdown. It was led by Dido Harding, a Conservative peer and businesswoman who previously worked for Tesco and TalkTalk. She was appointed by the then health secretary, Matt Hancock, who praised her “brilliant” work on the pandemic.

In a damning report, the public accounts committee concluded that NHS test and trace “has not achieved its main objective to help break chains of Covid-19 transmission and enable people to return towards a more normal way of life” despite receiving about 20% of the NHS’s entire annual budget – £37 bn – over two years.

Instead, the report said, since the end of October 2020 “the country has had two more national lockdowns and case numbers have risen dramatically”.

“Failure to cut infections could mean that we suffered more sickness and death, and longer time spent living under restrictions than would otherwise have been the case.”

[labourites]

People don't realise the difference between a million & a billion 1 million seconds equal 11 *DAYS* 1 billion seconds equal 31 *YEARS* I do not believe it is even possible to legitimately spend £37 *BILLION* on test & trace Where has £ gone? Suspect CORRUPTION on a HUGE scale.

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The Serco Test And Trace Disaster As Explained By The Thick Of It

Therese Coffey explaining Serco Test and Trace on BBC Breakfast:

Therese Coffey then explaining her view on the contacts of the 16,000 people who tested positive for the virus who didn’t get logged because of an IT error:

(16,000 people were not logged as the result of a failure with Test and Trace. The government call it ‘NHS Test and Trace’, but it is not NHS. Public Health England are being scapegoated. Who actually runs it? Serco. The same people whose data loss a few years ago meant half a million people missed breast cancer screenings. Tory peer Baroness Dido Harding is the executive of the scheme. The woman responsible for data losses at TalkTalk. Given Serco’s and Hardings’ histories surrounding data loss, it should be unsurprising that it would happen here.)