That'll be Public Health England thenMuch as I dislike the serial incompetence of the idiots in Westminster, it's important to lay the blame at the right door, or things never get better. Many people in the NHS use Excel because the 'proper' systems don't talk to each other, so they have to transfer data using CSV files and Excel. It's a shambles and a bigger problem than just this incident. It is down to years and years of mismanagement in the NHS and various governments.
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Remember that most of NHS Test and Trace is actually run by private sector companies
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Tue 6 Oct 2020, 19:39,
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Whether they are private or public isn't really the point, it's accountability that mattersPrivate companies like Google and Amazon don't screw up their platforms this badly because they have accountability. There is no accountability I can see in PHE or the companies they contract. They fuck up and get new contracts or promotion. You can't have this simple private == bad, public == good rhetoric as an excuse for the fuck-ups, I think it has a lot more to do with political interference, with halfwit ministers and civil servants with History and PPE degrees thinking that science and technology is easy and changing your mind every ten minutes has no impact.
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