Contact tracing

[vetran]

I'll do it for £200 mln.

£50 mln to minister in charge, £50 mln for me and the rest for SueEllen

oh go imagine being called up by SueEllen - 'are you clean boy?'

[LondonManc]

World beating Tory incompetence.

Even better in Amurica. LM Jr's PS4 buddy over there went and registered for a test with his dad. Both sat there for half an hour, queue didn't move so they skipped the test and went home. The following day they both received an email that they'd tested positive.

[AtW]

I'll do it for £200 mln.

£50 mln to minister in charge, £50 mln for me and the rest for SueEllen

[SueEllen]

my company could do it for mere £100 million.

I can undercut you by £0.02

[Andy2]

my company could do it for mere £100 million.

[AtW]

PHE will now be “reformed” - embarrassing the ministers with great work vs policy to outsource work

[Old Greg]

World beating Tory incompetence.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Is anyone surprised at this?

[AtW]

“ The outsourcing giants Serco and Sitel are being paid £192m to provide 18,500 call handlers who are responsible for tracing non-complex contacts referred to them.

...

It comes as analysis shows that of the 184,703 contacts traced so far, only 23.8% of those were by Serco and Sitel.

It means that their 18,500 call handlers have traced about two contacts each. The remaining 140,660 contacts were traced by 975 staff working in PHE’s teams — equivalent to about 144 each.“

Coronavirus: track and trace fails in 50% of ‘easiest’ cases | News | The Sunday Times