Re:The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app were the res...
by DanBC on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:50AM
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> Dido Harding has links to the Tory party and was in charge of the Talk Talk data leak scandal, and has been put in charge of the track-and-trace programme in the UK.
Some more context to this: England already has an excellent system for track and trace. Not for covid-19, we fucked that up. But for sexual health we have excellent work being done across the country by public health departments. These were split off from the NHS some time ago, and now they're funded by local authorities so they're struggling to cope with over a decade of austerity. But it's still a weird decision to not make use of that expertise and pull Harding in. Her work at NHS Improvement[1] is good, but she's had very little contact with public health work.
Some more context to this: England already has an excellent system for track and trace. Not for covid-19, we fucked that up. But for sexual health we have excellent work being done across the country by public health departments. These were split off from the NHS some time ago, and now they're funded by local authorities so they're struggling to cope with over a decade of austerity. But it's still a weird decision to not make use of that expertise and pull Harding in. Her work at NHS Improvement[1] is good, but she's had very little contact with public health work.
[1] Now NHS England + Improvement