The government was forced to admit that local public health teams are better at contact tracing than its national NHS Test and Trace contractors. As the TAT scheme was revamped, the contact tracing app reappeared; using a new model, and with fewer ambitions than its much-hyped predecessor.
Meanwhile, NHS attention was firmly fixed on winter, with trusts warning that they were already facing high demand in A&E. The King’s Fund issued a report suggesting the NHS needed to be more “ambitious” about adopting technology to cope with demand from long-term conditions. And Sectra extended an important deal with a long-standing client.
