Do we need to move to a more privatisation of the healthcare system, for the future pandemics, and away from the centralisation that PHE is?
Also will we see the removal of the PHE and see a more CDC role of government view |
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"Do we need to move to a more privatisation of the healthcare system, for the future pandemics, and away from the centralisation that PHE is?
Also will we see the removal of the PHE and see a more CDC role of government view "
To get a quicker and scaled up testing setup |
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No. The privatised businesses that have been running parts of the testing regime are under heavy criticism for their many bodged aspects of it. Some hospitals took things in house again.
Our problems with testing is due to us not having looked down at least a week earlier, not having decided to increase testing and tracing of contacts earlier and the endemic mismanagement of the situation. This included leaving hospitals without safety equipment, nor widespread testing and ignoring care homes until very recently. With all of the very poor decisions, we went from being equivalent to Germany in infection numbers to completely dwarfing them with the numbers of our dead.
They have greater hospital capacity but didn't need it. We waited during a period of exponential growth in numbers, so that we have tens of thousands more people dead. This is irrespective of who coordinated testing etc, as we had greater testing capacity earlier on that was unused, such as in university labs and medical facilities. We discontinued tracing of contacts too. We set ourselves up to fail. |
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