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SOUTHAMPTON'S Green party is calling on the government to hand over control of the test and trace system to local authorities. Following the outbreak of the South African variant of Covid in Southampton in February, and and now again in South London, the Green Party has called on the government to decentralise its "calamitous" test and trace system and hand over control of the system to local authorities. The demand comes soon after Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley led the party’s call for a public inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic. Green Party candidate...

Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2020 Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 NHS IT stories of 2020 Share this item with your network: By Published: 31 Dec 2020 9:00 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic has been a huge challenge for the healthcare sector, but it has also been a significant driver in technological advances, as well as high-profile projects such as test and trace and the Covid-19 app. When the first wave of the pandemic hit at the beginning of the year, NHS organisations across the country were faced by unprecedented pressure, while government scrambled to put plans in place to tackle the ...

© REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool FILE PHOTO A New York Times investigation into the UK's handling of the pandemic reveals misuse of government funds on a massive scale during its Covid-19 response, calling it "one of the greatest spending sprees in Britain's postwar era." The report, titled 'Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain's Pandemic Spending', was published on Thursday. In it, the Times says that "about $11 billion went to companies either run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservative Party, or with no prior experience or a history of controversy." The newspa...

© REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool FILE PHOTO A New York Times investigation into the UK's handling of the pandemic reveals misuse of government funds on a massive scale during its Covid-19 response, calling it "one of the greatest spending sprees in Britain's postwar era." The report, titled 'Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain's Pandemic Spending', was published on Thursday. In it, the Times says that "about $11 billion went to companies either run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservative Party, or with no prior experience or a history of controversy." The newspa...