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Nurse Eleanor Pinkerton administers a coronavirus vaccine to one of the health and social care staff at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow
HEALTH campaigners said today that the successful NHS rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination programme has shamed the failure of the privately run contact tracing system.
A new poll conducted by pollster Survation, commissioned by campaign groups Keep Our NHS Public and We Own It, found that 80 per cent of the public praised the NHS vaccination programme, while only 29 per cent had a good word for the profit-driven test and trace system.
England’s contact tracing system, which has been mostly managed by the outsourcing company Serco and call centre firm Sitel, saw hundreds of millions in public cash pumped into profiteers’ pockets.
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
Government urged ‘to tackle the root causes’ of the NHS crisis and improve ‘social care services’