Councils have a near 100 per cent record at contact tracing, officials have revealed, amid calls for them to be handed responsibility for test and trace. While the national call centre is getting hold of 40 per cent of people who have been near an infected person,...
“People don’t answer their phones, people don’t want to get a contact from an unknown number.” Local contact tracing efforts have been stepped up, in part due to the public’s reluctance to pick up the phone, she added. Working with local...
Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in health protection at the University of East Anglia who has previously advised the World Health Organisation, said the app could be an effective tool in keeping down infection rates if people followed the self-isolate advice....
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...
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:...
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