On pillar 2. There’s been a bit of a mystery around the ‘gdpr’ problem that meant this data didn’t go to councils. One public health official says they reckon Deloitte - and everyone else procured by govt - were never told to notify this as a noticeable disease 1/

By default, this is a notifiable disease. But if that fact isn’t made clear by the govt people who hired you, you don’t necessarily collect the data accordingly. So, it seems, they didn’t. It wasn’t ‘robust and systematic’. “Hence the reluctance to share.”

Deloitte - as an outsourcer - would not automatically know that this was necessary.

This was ‘a rush to deliver activity without thinking through how you tackle the consequences’.

I asked them for their view of what Deloitte’s expertise in this comprises and the a was: “None at all.”

Having said that, suspect govt, in the absence of the local structures it should have had - partly because it tried its best to kill them from 2010 - went for what it knew.

Was the solution below par? Yep. But in 2020, we are where we are.