Here's Who Is Actually Running NHS Test And Trace
If you search social media for “NHS Test and Trace” you’ll find not the latest figures on infections in the UK, nor Boris Johnson’s plan for dealing with them, but post after post of people imploring others to drop “NHS” from the name.
Instead, they claim the name – and the negative connotations that result when the system fails to reach its targets – should reflect the private companies that actually run most of the network.
Exactly. Can the media stop referring to it as the NHS test and trace scheme. Its a failed Serco Test and Trace scheme. https://t.co/FCVOpRjJyJ
— Deborah Meaden (@DeborahMeaden) September 16, 2020
“Everyone has NHS Test and Trace hoodies but none of them work for the NHS,” a test site worker employed by a private company who wished to remain anonymous told HuffPost UK.
“As far as I can tell, the whole thing is run by private companies as much as humanly possible.”
The ‘data processors’
Thirty-five organisations are listed as “data processors” involved in the NHS Test and Trace system but only four are NHS bodies. Four are Lighthouse Labs (see below).
A further four are Public Health England bodies and another is the Ministry of Defence.
The remaining 22 are private companies:
ACF Technologies – provided software to enable you to book a test at a regional test site
Amazon – provides logistics for home delivery of test kits, collecting completed test kits from homes and delivering them to labs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – provides digital solution for ordering home test kits
AstraZeneca – analyses samples from the completed test kits
Barcode warehouse – provides bar codes for test kits
Boots – provides testers and test supervisors on regional test sites
Deloitte – manages the registration and appointment booking, provides the capability for users to enter sample bar codes and responsible for holding data captured by the registration system and making it available to the NHS
DHL – collects completed test...
