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Dido Harding's second in command at Test & Trace 'lost it' during months of chaos and was even forced to seek help from a psychiatrist whom she cried to.  Sarah-Jane Marsh acted as director of testing at Test & Trace until six weeks ago and said that the chaos surrounding the roll-out of the scheme made her feel she 'couldn't make decisions'.  She was forced to seek help from an NHS psychiatrist after she crashed her car but carried on driving without stopping.  Test & Trace cost £22billion of taxpayers' money but has been beleaguered with problems since its inception in May.  Sarah-Jane...

Now a senior NHS official who helped develop the beleaguered Test and Trace programme has revealed for the first time the turmoil at the heart of Dido Harding’s leadership team. Sarah-Jane Marsh, who served as director of testing at Test and Trace, has said the chaotic rollout led her to “lose it”, feel that she “couldn’t make decisions”, and even to seek psychiatric help from an NHS colleague. The problems seemed so insurmountable that she once crashed her car and carried on driving without stopping or thinking, she said. Ms Marsh, once the youngest ever NHS chief executive, was ...