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[SueEllen]

Boris's friends aren't Sajid's friends...

BBC News - Test and Trace boss Dido Harding to step down from NHS role https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58151615

Baroness Dido Harding, who ran the government's Covid-19 test-and-trace programme in England, will step down from her NHS role in October.

The Conservative peer recently applied to be the new boss of NHS England, but the job went to Amanda Pritchard.

The testing and contact tracing scheme has been criticised repeatedly during the pandemic.

But the government has always defended the system, saying it helped curb the spread of the virus.

Baroness Harding became chair of NHS Improvement in October 2017, before being chosen to head up Test and Trace - a role she stepped back from in April.

[ladymuck]

I wonder if that was the initial term done and just not extended?

One of the things that does get lost in the messaging about the cost of Test/Track and Trace is that the cost is the projected cost for its first two years of operation, and it hasn't all been spent yet. That, and the cost covers the app plus all the staff to do the calling round / knocking on doors and other stuff.

https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-test-and-trace-cost/

[SimonMac]

She’s stepping back from the NHSI role that she’s had for four years. I’m guessing once she didn’t get the NHSE one there is no point staying in healthcare as she’s got no where else to go now