Also on rt.com NHS Covid pass suffers outage for several hours, leaving people unable to show proof of vaccination status “When under pressure, as it was over Christmas 2020 and more recently in April, performance deteriorates, with only 17% of people receiving tests within 24 hours in December 2020,” the spending watchdog said.Īccording to the report, the NHS Test and Trace was the government’s most expensive pandemic response health programme, having been allocated “an eye watering £37 billion ($50.8 billion) over two years, although it underspent by £8.7 billion ($11.9 billion) in its first year.” The programme’s cost was equal to nearly 20% of the 2020-2021 NHS England budget. It added that groups like older people, men, and some ethnic minorities are less likely to engage with the service. NHST&T’s overall goal is to help break the chains of Covid-19 transmission and enable people to return to a more normal way of life, but there have been two national lockdowns since October 2020 and at the time of our evidence session, cases were increasing again.Īlthough there were some improvements in the app’s performance since it was introduced last year, over 60% of people with Covid symptoms reported that they had not been tested, the committee said. However, the app has failed to live up to expectations, the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts wrote in its report published on Wednesday.
The app would then tell users to get tested themselves and self-isolate in case they were infected. The NHS Test and Trace (NHST&T) system and app were designed to identify close contacts of people who test positive for Covid-19.
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