MPs slam lack of planning and poor data in Covid shielding scheme
Some 800,000 people may have “slipped through the net and missed out on much-needed support”
Missing or incorrect phone numbers on NHS records made it hard to contact some vulnerable people. Bicanski/Pixnio
Up to 800,000 people may have missed out on support from the government’s coronavirus shielding programme due to poor data and a lack of coordination across government departments, a damning review of the programme has found.
The Public Accounts Committee said that the programme, which was designed to protect the most clinically-vulnerable people by providing advice and practical support enabling them to isolate and reduce the risk of them catching Covid-19, suffered from the problems of poor data and a lack of joined up systems that we see all too often in government programmes”.
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by Nick Bostock
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That Ioffe tweet at the end, about people not understanding how this stuff works, is still mind boggling to me. I saw a Face the Nation clip with 5 citizens giving their various opinions about it, and one of them, a very outspoken man, was asked why, exactly, he was opposed to wearing a mask, and… crickets. Dude was flummoxed, because all he’d ever been doing was playing a bit part in the really stupid pandemic movie playing in his head. Up till now, when he was simply asked about it, he’d only been “owning the libs”, so no thought required. Or so I would guess.
The Western Health and Social Care Trust (Western Trust) has now seen the successful completion of the drive to administer first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccine across all care homes. Western Trust vaccination teams have been responsible for administering vaccines to all 64 care homes located across the Trust area since the vaccination programme began on December 14. Slieve Na Mon Care Home in Omagh was the last in the Vaccination Programme list for the first and second doses of the vaccine to staff and residents and the team will now be ‘mopping up’ any vaccines required in the Care Home sector for the Trust.