The number of people who tested positive for Covid through NHS Test and Trace in England fell by a quarter last week, official figures revealed today. Around 149,000 people referred to the scheme were diagnosed with the disease in the week up to February 3 —down 24 per cent on the previous week. It is … Read more
Covid cases in England have plummeted by 41 per cent in the last fortnight, according to Test and Trace figures as pressure on NHS intensive care units has started to ease for the first time since the second wave took off. The contact tracing programme reported 196,257 positive tests in the week up to January 27, down … Read more
Love Island stars have been pictured jetting off to sun-soaked locations months after taking taxpayers’ cash to promote NHS Test and Trace – as a top health chief today warned the system isn’t working. While millions of Britons live under stay-at-home orders, influencers such as Shaughna Phillips and Josh Denzel have both shared snaps of … Read more
NHS Test and Trace app boss Simon Thompson becomes Royal Mail’s new chief executive Simon Thompson was Ocado’s chief product officer before taking the NHS role Thompson replaces Keith Williams, who will take non-executive role He will receive a base salary £525,000 and a pension allowance of 13.6 per cent By Camilla Canocchi for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: … Read more
A couple wrongly accused of abusing their children have wished their eldest daughter a happy 21st birthday – 16 years after they last saw her. In early 2005, devoted parents Nicky and Mark Webster were given just an hour to celebrate their little girl’s fifth birthday before saying goodbye to her and their two younger … Read more
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