Show MPs what safe test and trace looks like

This Government has already wasted £millions of our money on private firms who have let us down so please don't waste any more on companies like Serco and protect the NHS and us all by setting up a NHS and local authority Test and Trace system.

Let's keep fighting to put an end to Serco and all the others like them, and give the NHS the credit that they deserve.

Track & trace should not be given to private companies to make a profit.

Stop wasting money to servo and other private companies! Concentrate on Our NHS!!!

It wouldn't be so bad if these companies were actually good at it but the list of failures is growing all the time. We can only jump to conclusions about why the same companies keep getting the work, even when they have already proved their incompetence.

Fortunately, Group4 aren't doing the testing...

When in employment I received private health service,. but now as an octogenarian I rely on tne N H S who have served me

well

Stop giving money to private companies !!!

The NHS, not private companies with no proven competence in health care, should be responsible for track and trace. Giving huge amounts of money to such companies - often ones with ties to the Conservative Party - is both absurd and corrupt.

This government is a disgrace to democracy

End this dangerous opportunism now! Companies such as Serco have no business ANYWHERE in our economy, least of all in life-and-death services such as track and trace. Ministers such as Matt Hancock are ideologically committed to privatisation of the NHS, by stealth so that the public isn't alerted to their nefarious schemes, and see the pandemic not as the tremendous national tragedy it is, but as an opportunity to give out fat contracts (without any proper scrutiny and against expert advice from public health practitioners)to their chums.

I'm concerned that our 3-pronged battle with Coronavirus (immunity in some, targeted lockdown and social distancing to limit transmission, and tracing and self-isolation of people who have been exposed to the virus) is being sabotaged in the Test and Trace stage. And why are we missing this vital opportunity?

Tracing should be done by local, trained public health professionals and GPs, and not call centres belonging to private companies who don't know about healthcare and who are not making it work. We need to sort this out NOW. How dare the Government put people's lives at risk in this way?

- see recent British Medical Journal (BMJ) blog: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/09/24/karl-friston-how-should-we-respond-to-an-upsurge-in-covid-19-cases/

The vast amounts of public money to be transferred to NHS and Local Authorities and the Tory Baroness with no relevant experience to be sacked and replaced with a competent administrator with a proven track record.

ALL our lives are at serious risk under the current shambolic mess!!!

Stop wasting our money on private companies ,but being tories you love privatisation ,money for your boys.

I believe that private companies such as Serco should not be allowed to do Test and Trace - they don't have the expertise and they are just taking our money and doing very little while charging the earth. Public bodies - the NHS and local councils - have better information and do the job much better. But they have been starved of funds, they barely have enough to carry out their legal duties. This is all wrong. The Government should not be handing money to Serco and others without any tendering process. Give it to the NHS and local government instead - they will do it better and cheaper.

parliament should oversee government actions and government should not sub contract to private companies without due care

Track and trace is anything but world beating ,could it be the private companies you are using?

We need to stop the Tory scum at al and their friends running this country into a zombie republic and laughing stock of the world. Do you agree Dido Harding?

Private companies care about profit and not health. Mr Hancock take a note from Scotland and Wales and do it properly not pay hundreds of millions to a private company who don't care at all. Surely common sense would be to let the NHS run the app and not some company, shame on you!

Since 2010 when the Tory government came to power, I must have signed thousands of petitions and donated more than I care to think about - the first I signed was a 38 Degree petition to stop Caroline Spelman selling off our forests. All of this has been essential because we have a government who have nothing but contempt for ordinary people who are the doctors, nurses, scientists, lawyers, engineers, police officers, fire & rescue officers, school teachers, key workers I could go on. Tory politicians are so arrogant they think they know best which they absolutely do not which is why there have been so many deaths from Covid 19. They fear socialism because they consider leaving everything to the markets is the answer - profit - profit - profit which also includes corruption. They would rather engage with private companies that know absolutely nothing about specialised fields but that doesn't matter as long as they contribute to Tory coffers - this is why this country is now the equivalent to a totalitarian state bordering on a rogue state because they ignore professionalism and think they are above the law.