Why can’t the ‘NHS’ Covid-19 contact tracing app register NHS test results?

I think we all know the answer to that: it isn’t an NHS app after all.

After This Site was criticised – quite harshly by some – for connecting the ‘NHS’ Covid-19 contact tracing app with Serco and suggesting that it is a data harvesting tool for private contractor Serco, and had to publish a story yesterday (September 25) providing the information on the government’s press release…

It seems I may have been right in the first place after all.

Concerns have been raised after a user discovered he could not enter details of a test he undertook that was processed at an NHS/Public Health England laboratory. It seems the app can only take details of Serco tests:

We in the general public aren’t stupid. We asked questions and we drew conclusions:

https://twitter.com/LeshieLoves/status/1309764368356302849

The BBC got the story wrong; the headline mentions nothing about the failure to accommodate NHS/PHE results…

https://twitter.com/zsk/status/1309792342321360897

… but it did tell us about a few other cock-ups:

  • People who test negative can’t share the result with the app if the test wasn’t booked through the app.
  • People who enter their symptoms but not a test result find the app puts them onto a self-isolation countdown anyway.
  • They cannot stop the countdown, even if they enter a negative test result later.

And it does mention the main issue – but buried low in the story, possibly in the hope that the mass of the general public (70 per cent of the UK public gets its news from the BBC, apparently) will not notice and will carry on along its brainwashed way.

The Department for Health and Social Care has said the app will be updated (although it hasn’t said that these problems will be resolved).

This Site ran a Twitter survey when the app was launched, asking if it would be withdrawn by the weekend. There was a low take-up but the result was decisive:

It isn’t being withdrawn but it seems clear that it should be.

The DHSC is still claiming – somewhat desperately – that “by downloading the app you are helping protect yourself and others”. But it seems clear that the app’s real purpose is entirely different:

This is what we’re finding. And as long as the government keeps lying to us about what it is doing, it is also sapping away public trust in anything Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and the other crooks are doing.

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One Comment

  1. Stu September 26, 2020 at 12:22 pm - Reply

    This go some way to explain why Laboratory capacity is limited, NHS and University lab results cannot be retained by private companies, so are not used.

    Private companies keeping the “data” in-house and actually owning all the results so that they can build up a lucrative super commercial private biometric profile database.
    In these circumstances, NHS results will not be allowed to be retained for private use so are ignored and/or discarded.

    Dangle the carrot of access to a Private Comprehensive UK Biometric Database including DNA (the Holy Grail), no wonder the USA companies like Apple and Google got on board.

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