Public Health England - Again
Posted: 06 Jan 2021, 14:09This is a post from April 17th last year, when PHE refused help from private sector laboratories to help with covid testing.
Well, PHE are at it again. High street pharmacies want to help with the rollout of the Oxford covid jab. Simon Dukes of the Pharmaceutical Negotiating Services Committee has asked why the NHS is "scrabbling around" looking for vaccinators when his industry is ready to help.
He has pointed out that there are 11,400 pharmacies that administer the flu jab every year, with the capacity to vaccinate 1.3 million people per week.
So how keen is the government and NHS to get the vaccination done? Johnson can jump up and down and promise as much as he want, but it seems to me that the machinery of the British state is in a pretty poor way when it comes to actually DOING something.
It has also emerged that there are 5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine yet to be used despite being passed for use despite being cleared for use a month since, and 3.5 million doses of the Oxford vaccine held up waiting to pass the regulator's safety checks.
And despite Boris Johnson saying that the vaccines would be rolled out "as fast as we possibly can", PHE has decided they are not delivering the vaccine on a Sunday.
Unbelievable.
cromwell wrote:PHE is a massive health service quango. 5,000 staff and a budget of £4.25 billion pounds a year.
They are supposed to be doing something important re vaccines for the government.
Only, some private firms who have offered to help with the task seem to doubt this.
the Daily Telegraph had a story yesterday about a British company called Apacor who gained approval from the Medicare and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to supply 150,000 antigen tests to Britain. This is a South Korean test that the Germans are using.
BUT the PHE lab at Colindale has still not sent for a sample to be verified and says it hasn't got time to talk to Apacor until next week.
Apacor have been waiting for two weeks already.
Testing is supposed to be vitally important, so what's happening here?
Im what is happening is that the PHE is defending it's turf. They don't want some private firm turning up and showing them up. They are desperately trying to justify their own existence here because if these private firms can do what Public Health England can't, then what's the point of Public Health England?
Other private firms offering to help with testing have had no answer from the NHS, the government or PHE.
This is a scandal, I'm surprised the rest of the press haven't latched on to it.
Well, PHE are at it again. High street pharmacies want to help with the rollout of the Oxford covid jab. Simon Dukes of the Pharmaceutical Negotiating Services Committee has asked why the NHS is "scrabbling around" looking for vaccinators when his industry is ready to help.
He has pointed out that there are 11,400 pharmacies that administer the flu jab every year, with the capacity to vaccinate 1.3 million people per week.
So how keen is the government and NHS to get the vaccination done? Johnson can jump up and down and promise as much as he want, but it seems to me that the machinery of the British state is in a pretty poor way when it comes to actually DOING something.
It has also emerged that there are 5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine yet to be used despite being passed for use despite being cleared for use a month since, and 3.5 million doses of the Oxford vaccine held up waiting to pass the regulator's safety checks.
And despite Boris Johnson saying that the vaccines would be rolled out "as fast as we possibly can", PHE has decided they are not delivering the vaccine on a Sunday.
Unbelievable.
