The NHS Test and Trace programme may have cost the taxpayer £37billion, but it still hasn’t done what it was set up to do, a damning report by MPs says.
The committee also criticised handling of the cash, highlighting that the programme has still not managed to reduce the number of expensive contractors. It has been focused on getting programmes up and running and ‘paid less attention to ensuring these programmes delivered the benefits they promised’, they added.And uptake of services provided by the programme is ‘variable’ as some vulnerable people are much less likely to take a test than others, the report said.MPs on the cross-party committee said that as the programme is moved into the new UK Health Security Agency it needs a ‘proper long-term strategy’.
In conclusion, the report says NHS Test and Trace ‘has not achieved its main objective to help break chains of Covid-19 transmission and enable people to return towards a more normal way of life’. In a statement, UK Health Security Agency chief executive Dr Jenny Harries said: ‘NHS Test and Trace has played an essential role in combating this pandemic.
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