Matt Hancock`s fear of embarrassment when testing for coronavirus fails to reach 100,000 a day has led to him in part responding to Labour`s demand for "priority testing for social-care workers". However, as you would expect from a government led by the science of Dominic Cummings, outsourcing is causing problems.These concerns, particularly at the Chessington testing centre,, show that, rather than having a government determined to reduce the coronavirus threat by implementing a test, trace and isolation policy, we have ministers desperate not to look too foolish when their promises backfire.
How else can the hiring of accountancy firm, Deloitte, "to help scale up testing nationally", be explained? Not only is Deloitte one of the so-called "big four" accounting firms which are frequently criticised for the inaccurate auditing of firms, it was last year fined £4.2m by the watchdog for its audit of Serco during the latter`s electronic tagging scandal when the justice ministry was overcharged "tens of millions of pounds", billed for tracking the movements of people who had either returned to prison or who had died! Now we find them not only working alongside each other at Chessington, but also with Boots, well known for its tax avoidance schemes, and, as a Times investigation in 2018 showed, for charging the NHS between £1843 and £3220 for medicines bought by other pharmacists for £93.20!
With their willingness to maximise their takings from government, and their cavalier approach to accurate figures, these companies will no doubt hel
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