MP s Committee, Slam UK Gov "Track and Trace" Program!
Oct 27, 2021 10:13:40 GMT
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Post by gordo on Oct 27, 2021 10:13:40 GMT
This is part of the story from THE NATIONAL (Scotland), can't find it on BBC News website, tho they did have it on the wireless yesterday..............
THE NATIONAL
Boris Johnson's Test and Trace scheme branded an expensive failure
By Gregor Young
"THE UK Government’s Test and Trace programme has failed to achieve its key objective despite being handed "eye-watering" sums of money, according to a report by MPs.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that the outcomes of the scheme – which is separate from Scotland’s Test and Protect programme – have been "muddled" and a number of its aims have been "overstated or not achieved".
Meanwhile it has been handed the equivalent of 20% of the NHS's entire annual budget – £37 billion over two years.
The committee also criticised handling of the cash, highlighting that the programme has still not managed to reduce the number of expensive contractors – who are paid an average of £1100 per day – and has not developed a "flexible" approach to using laboratories, which "risks wasting public money".
Test and Trace's "continued over-reliance on consultants is likely to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds", the report states.
It has been focused on getting programmes up and running and "paid less attention to ensuring these programmes delivered the benefits they promised", it adds.
And uptake of services provided by the programme is "variable" as some vulnerable people are much less likely to take a test than others........................"
THE NATIONAL
Boris Johnson's Test and Trace scheme branded an expensive failure
By Gregor Young
"THE UK Government’s Test and Trace programme has failed to achieve its key objective despite being handed "eye-watering" sums of money, according to a report by MPs.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that the outcomes of the scheme – which is separate from Scotland’s Test and Protect programme – have been "muddled" and a number of its aims have been "overstated or not achieved".
Meanwhile it has been handed the equivalent of 20% of the NHS's entire annual budget – £37 billion over two years.
The committee also criticised handling of the cash, highlighting that the programme has still not managed to reduce the number of expensive contractors – who are paid an average of £1100 per day – and has not developed a "flexible" approach to using laboratories, which "risks wasting public money".
Test and Trace's "continued over-reliance on consultants is likely to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds", the report states.
It has been focused on getting programmes up and running and "paid less attention to ensuring these programmes delivered the benefits they promised", it adds.
And uptake of services provided by the programme is "variable" as some vulnerable people are much less likely to take a test than others........................"