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In early summer 2020, the results of the PPE shopping spree became clear. Only then did the Government stop to factor in how much PPE healthcare services were actually using. The answer was 503 million bits of PPE a month. But even at that prodigious rate, the Government realised it had ordered enough to last five years. Like desert rains, the deluge of contracts ended as rapidly as it had begun.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/20/covid-waste-ppe-contract-scandal/
B2HS2L, I've read the article, although not clear as where Novacyt has been involved. I accept that there's links between individuals at Proton DX and Novacyt, but what have we been doing and what might that mean for the bottom line. Also, will Katalyst continue to use Promate and the Q32, or has this been dropped in favour of the new Proton DX system. If Novacyt are involved, surely they'd become a distributor as well?
As usual, too many unanswered questions and we are simply stabbing in the dark.
It was four months ago Today that DA departed.
Perhaps JMC has been promised the CEO position, although first he has to prove that he can deliver and reverse the declining revenue, turn that corner and show that non-covid revenue is increasing. I guess that JMC was instrumental in the departure of DA, which might explain the silence.
Only a few weeks ago we learned that a new e-commerce platform was about to be launched, yesterday discovered that a new company video is being filmed. New vacancies, within both Sales and R&D.
Hoping that 'no news is good news.'
Okay, I take that back, can view his profile within Private Mode and can see that he liked a post from a Novacyt colleague earlier Today, however I still think an odd decision to block people and the vacancy as advertised is a very similar position to his own.
It was a couple of weeks ago, Antonio posted the vacancy the same week that Matthew’s profile vanished. Did Matthew leave suddenly and not work his notice period, I’m not sure, can only guess.
Consultants were paid a total of £1 million a day to work on the NHS Test and Trace system for more than a year of the pandemic, despite ministers being “very worried” about the spending.
WhatsApp messages between Matt Han****, then the health secretary, and his team of special advisers, show that he was shocked at learning the extent of Whitehall spending on external consultants to prop up the government’s ailing contact tracing system in January 2021.
He asked for the “exit strategy” and Emma Dean, his special adviser, said she had been “nagging” the department about it since November 2020.
Mr Han**** appears to have been made aware of the problem after David Williams, a senior civil servant, appeared before a parliamentary select committee on Jan 19, 2021.
The WhatsApp messages also raise fresh questions about the cost of the Test and Trace programme, which was accused by MPs of spending “unimaginable” sums and treating taxpayers “like an ATM machine” without making a “measurable difference” to case numbers in the UK.