Dido Harding today said the UK is in one of the ‘leading positions worldwide’ to recognise and deal with new variants of the coronavirus. And the NHS Test and Trace boss admitted to MPs that her biggest fear about Covid-19 is ‘what we don’t know’, saying she was certain it would present new, unknown problems … Read more
Dido Harding’s deputy in Test & Trace ‘lost it’ during months of chaos and was forced to seek help from psychiatrist colleague Sarah-Jane Marsh acted as director of testing at Test & Trace until six weeks ago She was forced to seek help from NHS psychiatrist colleague after ‘losing it’ Test & Trace cost £22billion … Read more
‘Many hours of Zoom ahead’: Testing tsar Dido Harding reveals she is self-isolating after getting ‘pinged’ by her own contact tracing app Baroness Harding revealed on Twitter that she has been told to self-isolate The Test & Trace chief said she had ‘many hours of Zoom ahead’ By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: … Read more
Test and Trace boss Baroness Dido Harding claims it is ‘not my job’ to predict when the system will get overloaded and claims she didn’t foresee new school year crippling the struggling regime By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 13:36 GMT, 10 November 2020 | Updated: 14:12 GMT, 10 November 2020 England’s … Read more
The MP husband of Test and Trace chief Baroness Dido Harding has been told to self-isolate by the coronavirus app – though she has not been asked to. Tory MP John Penrose was alerted by the NHS Covid-19 app, part of the operation overseen by his wife. However, Baroness Harding has not received an alert … Read more
Dido Harding admits her under-performing NHS Test and Trace operation needs to take a ‘big leap forward’ to help the country get through the second lockdown but tells the CBI: ‘We will crack this’ Tory peer admitted the operation needed to get faster and better at using data She found time to take part in … Read more
The former chief executive of TalkTalk, who was at the helm of the company when it was hit by an £80 million cyber attack in 2015, will lead the UK’s test and trace scheme to tackle the coronavirus, set to launch tomorrow. Baroness Dido Harding of Winscombe, 53, was raised on a Somerset pig farm … Read more
Boris Johnson insists he has ‘full confidence’ in Baroness Dido Harding despite continued failures of coronavirus test and trace regime she runs amid Tory calls for her to QUIT NHS Test and Trace service was supposed to be key to controlling the disease But the system last week hit a record low, prompting demands for … Read more
NHS Test and Trace boss Dido Harding has admitted the programme is not a ‘silver bullet’ for solving the coronavirus crisis as Michael Gove defended giving police access to self-isolation data. Baroness Harding said the £12 billion programme is ‘undoubtedly a very important’ part of the Government’s efforts to tackle the spread of infection. But she … Read more
Don’t blame us for testing fiasco! Senior SAGE advisor hits back at Dido Harding after she pointed finger at group for not predicting second wave during grilling by MP over shambles Dido Harding said nobody was ‘expecting’ a big surge in demand for tests That’s despite children going back to school and workers returning to … Read more