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NHS Test and Trace is paying 2,300 management consultants an AVERAGE of £163,000 EACH – more than Boris Johnson’s £150k salary Test and Trace consultants are being paid an average salary of £163,000 each Government-funded service currently employs 2,300 management consultants The figures reflect number of consultants working at the start of November By Bhvishya … Read more
Dido Harding’s deputy in Test & Trace ‘lost it’ during months of chaos and was forced to seek help from psychiatrist colleague Sarah-Jane Marsh acted as director of testing at Test & Trace until six weeks ago She was forced to seek help from NHS psychiatrist colleague after ‘losing it’ Test & Trace cost £22billion … Read more
Dr Emma Stanton has been appointed as a vice president at Oxford Nanopore after leaving director role with NHS Test and Trace A director of the Government’s Test and Trace programme has quit her job and joined a private testing firm recently handed a £113million government contract. Emma Stanton was Director for Supplies and Innovation as … Read more
Test and Trace staff spent just 1% of their shifts actually working during height of coronavirus pandemic, damning report claims System received £22bn with promise it would prevent a second lockdown Some 18,000 call handlers were only working for one per cent of the time Another 3,000 were drafted in to help but they spent … Read more
Britons who have been vaccinated against Covid could get an ‘immunity passport’ on the NHS app, the boss of Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding told NHS bosses that her team was looking at updating the contact tracing app to also display vaccination status. Immunity passports have been touted as a way to … Read more
WHO unveils team of 10 scientists to trace Covid-19 origins in pandemic’s ground zero of Wuhan – but warn it is a ‘riddle that can take years to solve’ The WHO has assembled an international team of world-leading virus hunters Included in line up is England’s former deputy chief medical officer John Watson UN agency warned … Read more
Britain’s ‘world-leading’ Test and Trace system has failed to reach more than 100,000 people exposed to coronavirus in England’s hotspots since the second wave began, official figures show. The privately-run arm of the £22billion programme has reached just 58 per cent of the close contacts of people who tested positive for the virus in the … Read more
Test and Trace is still missing four in ten close contacts as number of people notified continues to fall since its launch in May 60.5% of close contacts of people who tested positive in England told to isolate in week ending November 11 It is the fifth week in a row that the figure has … Read more
Test and Trace is still missing four in ten close contacts as number of people notified continues to fall since its launch in May 60.5% of close contacts of people who tested positive in England told to isolate in week ending November 11 It is the fifth week in a row that the figure has … Read more
Jaguar Land Rover orders staff to turn OFF Test & Trace app to stop them having to isolate ‘unnecessarily’ Halewood factory staff told to pause Test and Trace app to stop ‘false positives’ The company has had a number of Covid outbreaks, most recently in September Advice to staff follows Test and Trace app guidance … Read more