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Difficult. next is making sure we had a system that was rigorous enough, was critical. and we built that over time. and there were improvements we had to make as we learned. so, for instance, one of the changes we made in about september, october, was that if you were phoning somebody up on the contact tracing site, to an individual, you would ask them to tell their contacts in their household to isolate instead of asking for the names of all those individuals and them phoning them one at a time, that change increase the efficiency of the system enormously and was something that we had to impr...

Scalable contact tracing programme. and putting those things in place at very large scale was hard. 50 we needed somebody who had experience both of building big retail organisations and of the nhs and health care and there was nobody better placed than dido harding to do that. as i said earlier, i had taken on essentially, executive authority to make it happen but i had a lot of other things that i needed to do, in fact one of the things we did during this whole period was we brought into external people in paul died in on ppe, kate bingham on vaccines and others. and the starting point was b...