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I did Google it ( I like referenced facts) from July:
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/chart-of-the-week-the-direct-health-and-care-costs-of-covid-19-so-far
It's very interesting. £31bn extra spent on pandemic,
£15bn on PPE
£10bn on Test and Trace
£1bn on ventilators
£5.5bn on private sector care and vaccine R&D and misc.
Let's look closely: https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1316454258552827904
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/chart-of-the-week-the-direct-health-and-care-costs-of-covid-19-so-far
It's very interesting. £31bn extra spent on pandemic,
£15bn on PPE
£10bn on Test and Trace
£1bn on ventilators
£5.5bn on private sector care and vaccine R&D and misc.
Let's look closely: https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1316454258552827904
£15bn spent on PPE:
£11bn has been awarded since April.
A major court case is under way to find out where £3bn of this fund has been spent and why so much hasn't produced any PPE: https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/government-legal-case-coronavirus-private-contracts-711916
£11bn has been awarded since April.
A major court case is under way to find out where £3bn of this fund has been spent and why so much hasn't produced any PPE: https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/government-legal-case-coronavirus-private-contracts-711916
£10bn on Test and Trace.
This isn't the 'NHS' at all, but an entirely outsourced operation.
Operation: Dido Harding.
Contact tracing > SERCO > 29 subcontractors.
Calls > SITEL.
Logistics: Deloitte> SERCO/G4S/Mitie/Sodexo
Testing > Randox
App > Failed
2nd App> Google/Apple
This isn't the 'NHS' at all, but an entirely outsourced operation.
Operation: Dido Harding.
Contact tracing > SERCO > 29 subcontractors.
Calls > SITEL.
Logistics: Deloitte> SERCO/G4S/Mitie/Sodexo
Testing > Randox
App > Failed
2nd App> Google/Apple
And already generating very poor value for taxpayer money:
Deloitte consultants paid extortionate amounts:
https://www.cityam.com/government-paying-test-and-trace-consultants-equivalent-of-1-5m-salary/
£11m on a failed test and trace app:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/test-and-trace-app-cost-uk-government-11million-a4474386.html
And repeated failures: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/coronavirus-test-taste-nhs-uk-19049328
Deloitte consultants paid extortionate amounts:
https://www.cityam.com/government-paying-test-and-trace-consultants-equivalent-of-1-5m-salary/
£11m on a failed test and trace app:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/test-and-trace-app-cost-uk-government-11million-a4474386.html
And repeated failures: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/coronavirus-test-taste-nhs-uk-19049328
£1bn on ventilators:
Actually https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-uk-government-spent-569-million-on-ventilators-for-the-nhs-but-many-havent-been-used-12085241 £569m on 30,000 ventilators, which have yet to be used.
While this is welcome, we haven't spent anything on more beds, staff, or space to run them.
Actually https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-uk-government-spent-569-million-on-ventilators-for-the-nhs-but-many-havent-been-used-12085241 £569m on 30,000 ventilators, which have yet to be used.
While this is welcome, we haven't spent anything on more beds, staff, or space to run them.
£5bn on the private sector:
Again useful to have extra capacity, for example in cancer care: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rutherford-health-and-equitix-set-up-nhs-diagnostic-centres-m9gf3lvhf which is Prof Karol Sikora's company.
But again, this isn't the 'NHS'.
Again useful to have extra capacity, for example in cancer care: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rutherford-health-and-equitix-set-up-nhs-diagnostic-centres-m9gf3lvhf which is Prof Karol Sikora's company.
But again, this isn't the 'NHS'.
In fact it would seem there has been remarkably little from this budget actually spent on NHS staff, beds, training, and given we already had 100,000 missing staff, a £6bn infrastructure backlog, a £3bn capital deficit and the worst waiting lists on record, seems odd.
Anyway, that's Google for you. Full of facts.
As we run full tilt, no thanks to some commentators, into a second wave, perhaps we can continue to support the healthcare workers who will be continuing to bear the brunt of whatever strategy we decide upon.
As we run full tilt, no thanks to some commentators, into a second wave, perhaps we can continue to support the healthcare workers who will be continuing to bear the brunt of whatever strategy we decide upon.
