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Private Eye - Test And Trace
After picking my jaw from the floor after reading this, I have to admit that besides my trusty Nokia 3310 I have a Huawei smart phone (android) which is around a year old.
After spending an hour or so downloading the NHS track & trace app. I go a message that it is not compatible with the phone (and so cannot run).
If I had spent £24 billion on a test & trace system that did not work on a one year old phone – I’d want my money back.
‘Number Crunching
£24bn Estimated cost of Test and Trace system to date’
For that amount you could build around half the high speed rail line from London to Birmingham (based on the original estimate)
After spending an hour or so downloading the NHS track & trace app. I go a message that it is not compatible with the phone (and so cannot run).
If I had spent £24 billion on a test & trace system that did not work on a one year old phone – I’d want my money back.
‘Number Crunching
£24bn Estimated cost of Test and Trace system to date’
For that amount you could build around half the high speed rail line from London to Birmingham (based on the original estimate)
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Donald Trump's trade ban prevents the NHS Covid app from working on Huawei phones released since mid-2019:
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Google/Apple did all the work to make building an app very straight forward and easy.
But it took the Consortium of companies a hell of along time to get the app onto the public’s phones.
It was also very expensive compared to other countries. The contract was awarded without any competitive tending tendering and went to chums of Dominic Cummings.
I sure all this will be looked at in subsequent years, and whether we got value for money, or not.
But it took the Consortium of companies a hell of along time to get the app onto the public’s phones.
It was also very expensive compared to other countries. The contract was awarded without any competitive tending tendering and went to chums of Dominic Cummings.
I sure all this will be looked at in subsequent years, and whether we got value for money, or not.
The Private Eye website says £12 billion, not £24 billion.
That ties in with the figure of £10 billion set aside for the project in June.
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That ties in with the figure of £10 billion set aside for the project in June.
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Yeah, that other 12 billion was under a Labour goverment on IT projecs so it just show's any one can quite easilly waste other peopels money
C&P from From PrivateEye
//£12bn. Cost of NHS National Programme for IT (2004-10), described by a leading public accounts committee member as ‘one of the worst scandals in terms of a waste of public money//
C&P from From PrivateEye
//£12bn. Cost of NHS National Programme for IT (2004-10), described by a leading public accounts committee member as ‘one of the worst scandals in terms of a waste of public money//
Good article here on some off the problem's with the test & trace in England. A wonder if same the problems are happning in rest of UK, maybe we just dont get picked up on it asmuch.
Lets see if this link works
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Several problems are mentioned, including tho not enough peopel co-operate ( we probaly all seen peopel give wrong mobile number's or make there name illegable), so yes its not gone aswell as it could of but not all the faults are due to Matt Hancock and Dido Harding?
Lets see if this link works
https:/
Several problems are mentioned, including tho not enough peopel co-operate ( we probaly all seen peopel give wrong mobile number's or make there name illegable), so yes its not gone aswell as it could of but not all the faults are due to Matt Hancock and Dido Harding?
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