Love Island stars Shaughna Phillips and Josh Denzel go abroad after Test and Trace ad campaign

Love Island stars have been pictured jetting off to sun-soaked locations months after taking taxpayers’ cash to promote NHS Test and Trace – as a top health chief today warned the system isn’t working. While millions of Britons live under stay-at-home orders, influencers such as Shaughna Phillips and Josh Denzel have both shared snaps of … Read more

Love Island stars Shaughna Phillips and Josh Denzel go abroad after Track and Trace ad campaign

Love Island stars have been pictured jetting off to sun-soaked locations months after taking taxpayers’ cash to promote NHS Track and Trace – as a top health chief today warned the system isn’t working. While millions of Britons live under stay-at-home orders, influencers such including Shaughna Phillips and Josh Denzel have both shared snaps of … Read more

NHS Test and Trace app boss Simon Thompson becomes Royal Mail’s new chief executive

NHS Test and Trace app boss Simon Thompson becomes Royal Mail’s new chief executive Simon Thompson was Ocado’s chief product officer before taking the NHS role Thompson replaces Keith Williams, who will take non-executive role  He will receive a base salary £525,000 and a pension allowance of 13.6 per cent  By Camilla Canocchi for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: … Read more

‘Happy Birthday, darling – Parents of three children taken into care to trace eldest as she turns 21

A couple wrongly accused of abusing their children have wished their eldest daughter a happy 21st birthday – 16 years after they last saw her. In early 2005, devoted parents Nicky and Mark Webster were given just an hour to celebrate their little girl’s fifth birthday before saying goodbye to her and their two younger … Read more

Dido Harding’s deputy in Test & Trace ‘lost it’ during months of chaos

Dido Harding’s deputy in Test & Trace ‘lost it’ during months of chaos and was forced to seek help from psychiatrist colleague Sarah-Jane Marsh acted as director of testing at Test & Trace until six weeks ago  She was forced to seek help from NHS psychiatrist colleague after ‘losing it’   Test & Trace cost £22billion … Read more

Test and Trace staff spent just 1% of their shifts actually working during height of pandemic

Test and Trace staff spent just 1% of their shifts actually working during height of coronavirus pandemic, damning report claims System received £22bn with promise it would prevent a second lockdown Some 18,000 call handlers were only working for one per cent of the time  Another 3,000 were drafted in to help but they spent … Read more

No10’s £22bn Test and Trace system has failed to reach more than 100,000 people

Britain’s ‘world-leading’ Test and Trace system has failed to reach more than 100,000 people exposed to coronavirus in England’s hotspots since the second wave began, official figures show. The privately-run arm of the £22billion programme has reached just 58 per cent of the close contacts of people who tested positive for the virus in the … Read more

Coronavirus UK: NHS Test and Trace still missing 40% close contacts

Test and Trace is still missing four in ten close contacts as number of people notified continues to fall since its launch in May 60.5% of close contacts of people who tested positive in England told to isolate in week ending November 11  It is the fifth week in a row that the figure has … Read more

Jaguar Land Rover orders staff to turn OFF Test & Trace app to stop them having to isolate

Jaguar Land Rover orders staff to turn OFF Test & Trace app to stop them having to isolate ‘unnecessarily’ Halewood factory staff told to pause Test and Trace app to stop ‘false positives’  The company has had a number of Covid outbreaks, most recently in September  Advice to staff follows Test and Trace app guidance … Read more