The stark reality of #Torycorruption:

The money the Tories spent on the failed #testandtrace programme during the #pandemic would now have paid for a 15% pay rise for every #NHS #worker until 2058.

While claiming there's insufficient money to pay a reasonable wage to NHS staff, there was always enough money to give to their chums (whether for rubbish PPE or ineffective T&T).

The NHS is not safe in Tory hands (but you know that!)

#SaveOurNHS #GTTO

h/t Howard Beckett/Unite

Where is @didoharding hiding those £37BILLION? Surely that failing #TestandTrace must have cost a lot less than the successful #Ireland one that only cost £700,000?
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RT @MichaelLamberta
Anyone know what happened to the £37,000,000 which was budgeted for Test & Trace?
https://twitter.com/MichaelLamberta/status/1627267556921712643

So the uber pig in the trough Johnson has 'earned' £5 million since he retired a few months ago.
He's a one man crimewave.

Wonder what he did for them while in no.10?
#borisjohnson #tory #testandtrace #covid

#Covid19UK #TestAndTrace
In more #ToryIncompetence news: Boris Johnson, Dido Harding, Matt Hancock -

'Public health leaders were slow to act on repeated warnings over Christmas 2020 that contact tracing and isolation should be triggered immediately after a positive lateral flow test result, leaked evidence to the Covid inquiry shows.'

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/30/officials-slow-to-act-on-contact-tracing-warnings-uk-covid-inquiry-told

Ministers originally claimed it was “completely false” to say there was a VIP lane for testing contracts

This was a lie

Good Law Project exposed the truth as to which companies benefitted - and they’re still fighting to uncover who referred them

Watch this space 👀

#UKPolitics #Immensa #Covid #VIPLane #TestAndTrace

At the time, we at Good Law Project threatened legal action, observing “We don’t know why government chose to sidestep established testing facilities in universities and hospitals to send £119m to a newly formed private company”

When we find out *who* added Immensa to the VIP Lane, might we also find out why?

#UKPolitics #Immensa #Covid #VIPLane #TestAndTrace

Tens of thousands of people were given false negative Covid results by Immensa - and 23 are now estimated to have died as a result

Immensa was one of the beneficiaries of the Test & Trace VIP lane, as revealed by Good Law Project

#UKPolitics #Immensa #Covid #VIPLane #TestAndTrace

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-63795285.amp

Tories are planning 35bn in cuts to our public services while fingering us for another 20bn in taxes. This is to pay for the money they gave away to mates for #TestAndTrace and shit #PPE

@Fascinatorfun

And who could forget the inexcusable #Excel error during the #Covid19 #pandemic

The failed test-and-trace system lost data and potentially allowed the virus to spread wider than it should have
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988

#spreadsheet #TestAndTrace

📣 Seeing a lot of “breaking news” about a Good Law Project and Runnymede Trust case from earlier this year (a time when I was Legal Director of GLP), in which then-Health Secretary #MattHancock was found to have acted unlawfully when he appointed #DidoHarding as the head of #TestAndTrace without due regard to equalities law

It’s not new, but it seems to do the rounds every so often. People are still really cross it seems!

You can read more👇 https://goodlawproject.org/update/dido-harding-mike-coupe-unlawful/

Boris pays 700 quid a day for advice like that. #testandtrace https://t.co/6yWGtr7MGs

Thanks to #outsourcing, #England's #TestAndTrace system is in chaos | Allyson Pollock | Opinion | The Guardian

This is what happens when you try to get private companies to do what #government should do.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/31/outsourcing-england-test-trace-nhs-private

RT @PrivacyMatters@twitter.com

I’ve donated to @OpenRightsGroup@twitter.com's legal action for #privacy protections in the UK's #TestandTrace programme! #Covid19 https://action.openrightsgroup.org/demand-privacy-protections-uks-test-and-trace-programme?pk_campaign=Covid&pk_kwd=TT&pk_source&refsid=113701&utm_source=twitter_share&utm_campaign=%5B235%5D&utm_medium=share <because from experience of reporting #HanCocks app that to the @ICOnews@twitter.com & their incompetent handling of that, we can’t rely on the ICO

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PrivacyMatters/status/1279407693464248321

If you want to understand why some countries have contained COVID-19 and why some haven't, look at this chart.

This isn't rocket science.

#testandtrace #testtraceisolate #masks4all https://pic.twitter.com/81ytkLerrv

While the sampling of countries is incomplete, this does give an idea of why test and trace is important!

RT @steve_hanke@twitter.com

Countries that #Test more fare better than countries that don't. #HongKong, #SouthKorea, & #Singapore's #TestAndTrace programs are models on how to fight #COVID19. If #India & #Pakistan want to avoid #Italy's fate, #TestingForCovid19 must ramp up considerably & quickly.