Oct 24, 2020
There is a spaghetti of command and control at the top, which is incapable of coherent analysis, assessment, planning and delivery. The directorates suffer a high level of churn. Data analysis has had three director-generals in five months. Bosses do not “own” their staff: most are temporary appointments and hard to recruit because of a […]
Oct 22, 2020
The figures showed a drop to 59.6 per cent, from 63 per cent in the previous week, in the proportion of close contacts of people testing positive who were reached – the worst weekly figure on record. Saffron Cordery, the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, said:...
Oct 17, 2020
The radiologists were stumped. They had been staring at a mammogram for several minutes, and couldn’t work out what was wrong. They sent the scan on to an arbitrator radiologist who declared that it was clear. That’s when Mia, an artificial intelligence...
Oct 16, 2020
Data suggests people are reluctant to pass on the details of possible contacts outside their own household, Prof Fraser said, adding: “About two thirds of the contacts are reported in the household, and we don’t know exactly why that is.” Last month,...
Oct 16, 2020
The boss of the outsourcer at the centre of a row over the NHS’s Covid test and trace scheme has launched a scathing attack on a senior Labour MP over comments it should be “sacked” for perceived failings. Rupert Soames, chief executive of Serco, said he was...
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