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Contact tracers speaking anonymously to @Telegraph said England’s test and trace service is so complex they fear potentially dangerous symptoms could be missed or the wrong advice given to the public Latest from @jriggers and me (free to read): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/englands-contact-tracing-system-complex-workers-fear-wrong-advice/
So far £12.1 billion in government funding has been earmarked to help set up and run the service, yet problems persist and Test and Trace is increasingly struggling to reach enough patients and their contacts https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/englands-contact-tracing-system-complex-workers-fear-wrong-advice/
Video footage seen by @Telegraph shows that scripts contact tracers use can be up up to 20 pages long, while shortcuts, such as a new FAQ system, fail to bring up key words relating to vulnerable settings such as "care home" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/englands-contact-tracing-system-complex-workers-fear-wrong-advice/
Other contact tracers said the system had been so difficult to use or access that they had been forced to abandon it after completing the training https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/englands-contact-tracing-system-complex-workers-fear-wrong-advice/
When I put our findings to DHSC they said: "these claims are inaccurate and ill-informed. NHS Test and Trace is helping to stop the spread of the virus, with over two million people who may otherwise have unknowingly spread coronavirus contacted and told to isolate."
But @GabrielScally and @martinmckee, both members of @IndependentSage, weren't so convinced.
"We knew that this would happen and we warned that it would happen," Prof Mckee told me.
This story, like everything by @TelGlobalHealth, is free to read
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/englands-contact-tracing-system-complex-workers-fear-wrong-advice/
"We knew that this would happen and we warned that it would happen," Prof Mckee told me.
This story, like everything by @TelGlobalHealth, is free to read
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/englands-contact-tracing-system-complex-workers-fear-wrong-advice/
