Covid test waiting time soars as IT failure hits private ‘lighthouse’ testing lab
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Matt Hancock: this is the brain-dead nincompoop who thought it would be a good idea to let private companies try to make a profit from a deadly pandemic virus. Nothing works properly and we all remain in deadly danger six months after Covid-19 arrived in the UK.
Once again private profiteers have failed the people of the UK.
An “IT systems failure” at a ‘Lighthouse’ mega-laboratory in Cheshire “resulted in a delay to the processing of results,” the government said.
“In addition, the increase of tests across all routes has resulted in backlogs in some laboratories.”
The labs were built in April, in a partnership between the Department of Health and Social Care, Medicines Discovery Catapult, UK Biocentre and the University of Glasgow, supported by pharma companies GSK and AstraZeneca.
It means just seven per cent of people who took a test at a “satellite centre” got their results within 48 hours in the week to August 12 – down from 75 per cent two weeks earlier.
And only 28 per cent of people who were posted home testing kits got the result within 48 hours – down from 72 per cent.
This is what happens when you commit the health of the nation to the hands of people who want to make a profit from it: nothing works.
Source: New coronavirus chaos as test result waiting times soar due to IT malfunction – Mirror Online
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When they are controlled by government like the NHS
It worked now they carving it up the jobs it done
Are now being done by contractors whose only goal
Is profits another cock up by a Tory party whose only
Goal is to get us that unum policy of insurance ouch
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https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-government-defends-use-of-consultancy-to-lead-roll-out-of-uks-new-contact-tracing-app-12053085
Need I say more?
Except for the fact that this news never saw light of day on BBC.