The biggest problems with the £37bn NHS Test and Trace system

MPs say programme has been expensive flop that ‘failed’ to stop the spread

Baroness Harding and Matt Hancock at Downing STreet
Dido Harding and Matt Hancock at Downing Street
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NHS Test and Trace has proven to be an “eye-watering” waste of taxpayers’ money, the government spending watchdog has concluded.

A newly published Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report – described as “excoriating” by The Telegraph – said that despite £37bn of funding, the scheme “failed to deliver on its central promise of averting another lockdown”.

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