Matt Hancock Defends Outsourcing Botched ‘Test and Trace’ at Covid Inquiry

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock is Grilled at the Covid-19 Inquiry About Setting Up A Privatized “Test and Trace” service whic failed to prevent Lockdowns

Matt Hancock Has Defended Britain’s Botched Pandemic “Test and Trace” Operation at the Covid-19 Inquiry which Failed to Prevent Repeated Locklings.

The forms Health Secretary Outsourced the Nation’s Vital Contact Rather than Beefing Up Existing NHS and Local Public Health Laboratories and Its Failure Contributed to the Need for Further Lockdown Measures. The Disgraced Ex-Minister Blamed Health Leaders for Being Unable to Scale Up Testing Laboratories, Insisting “Public Health England Didn’t Have the Operational Capacity to Scale”

The Tores’ Privatized “NHS Test and Trace” Operation was set up in May 2020 Costing £ 37 Billion and LED by Mr Hancock’s Friend, Tory Baroness Dido Harding.

Outsourcing firms like serco were paid millions to call people and advis say to self-isolate but use agency call center staff paid the minimum wage who were farmed medically trained.

The forms i’m a celebrity get me out of here contestant Said: “The critical thing is that we are absolutely must, as a nation, be ready to expand and radically test capacity. Once the test is deeveloped.

“And there are those critics who said that it was in the work Way. What matters is that i done and it is planned for Next to be ready to be done.”

PM Boris Johnson Promised A “World Beating” System But the Public Accounts Committee Later Found NHS Test and Trace in Its Main Objective of Breaking Chains of Covid-19 Transmission. A BBC Investigation at the Time Showed Only Half of Close Contacts Were Being Reached in Some Areas.

MR Hancock Said Public Health England (PHE) “Prove Entirely Incapable of Expanding That Testing Capacity”, Adding: “It was a cottage industry and we need industrial scale capacity”.

The Inquiry Heard How Mr Hancock Set Up A Contract Training System “from Scratch” Rather than Providing the Funding to Upgrade Local Authority Labs and Facilities Run by Phe.

The Barrister Questioning Mr Hancock on Behalf of the Inquiry Asked Where He was awasing that the local contact tracing systems already existed.

Sophie Cartright Kc Said: “Did you appreciate that, that the directors of public Health with Local Authority is discharged and performed the roles of contact track?

MR HANCOCK Responded: “of Course i appreciated that. There was one person in each of the upper tier local autorities and therefore, around 100 people, brilliant people, I engaged with a huge of say the pandemic. This problem was, unfortunately, The Wrong Attitude. ”

MR Hancock Resigned As Health Secretary in 2021 AFTER ADMITTING BREACHING SOCIAL DISTANCING AFTER AFTER AFTER HIM IN A ROMANTIC EMBRACE WITH COLLADANGELO.

Lack of NHS Testing Capacity Meant Testing Everyone Who Had Covid Symptoms Had to Be Abandon Early in the Pandemic Once “Community Transmification” was established in the uk.

MR Hancok Told the Inquiry: “The Doctrine That We Had Going Into The Pandemic, That Was SHARED BY MOST OF THE WESTERED AND THE WORLD HEALTH.

“The Advice i Received from Public Health England was that we have been shoulded or try to test at scale or contact at scale as soon as community bassed transmission. There was no point in testing and conflicting any stupidity of hospites, effecatively, Everybody was going to get infected.

“That was the work at the attitude and it is absolutely critical that next time there is a pandemic… we are Ready to take the action to stop it spraying and protest the vulnerable first.”

He Concluded: “The single Most important is to confensing the industrial scale, the expansion of testing is necessary and we need to be ready to do it.”

MR Hancok disbanded phe in august 2020 and much of its roles haen takeen up by the uk health Security agency.

Forms tory health minister lord bethel said more investment should be put into public health Such as contraact tracing before the next pandemic. He Said a Lot of the Testing Capacity has been “Dismantled” Since Covid-19. He Told the Inquiry: “A lot of the dialogue in so far has ben about the management of what I was i was i was mad scramble to stand up testing… and where scramble was done correctly or swimming.

“My point is that we are should have had had a scramble in the first place. Question is asced, Why is that the case? ”