The Government of the UK was criticized after wasted the impressive amount of budgetary funds.
So, on the background of the COVID pandemic, the authorities launched the contact tracking program. According to the idea, the mechanism should have allowed to quickly identify potential infected surrounded by those who have already revealed COVID-19.
On the creation of such a system, 22 billion pounds of sterling or 30.5 billion dollars from the country’s budget was allocated. At the same time, there is no evidence that the system contributed to a decrease in the spread of the disease, the Parliamentary Committee for Control over Consumptions. Now the legislators require the Government of Boris Johnson to justify the “stunning investment of taxpayers”.
A dubious program, the cost of which exceeds the budget of the Ministry of Transport of Britain, continues to exist when the authorities refuse to increase the salary to doctors.
“Despite the unimaginable resources invested in this project, testing and tracking cannot indicate a measurable difference in the development of a pandemic, and the promise for which these huge spending was justified – the avoidance of the next blocking – was broken twice”, – said the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee Meg Hillier.
The expert report indicates that the program “overly depends” from contractors and temporary staff. At the same time, the authorities and organs of health care were removed from participation. As a result, as of February, about 2.5 thousand consultants at the program participated in the program with an estimated day rate of about 1.1 thousand pounds of sterling [1.5 thousand dollars]. Separate consultants at all could receive more than 6.6 thousand pounds of sterling [9.2 thousand dollars].
“We are also concerned about the lack of participation of school leaders and stakeholders in the field of education in the deployment of express testing, as well as the lack of general knowledge in the field of public health at the highest levels of testing and tracking the National Health Service”, – deputies said.