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Tens of thousands aren't giving their number as they can't afford to isolate if they're contacted.
That's why it's not working.
It isn’t working because of the way it is being operated.
although the job is advertised at clinician level 6, which is at a health or science degree level. with an hourly rate between £16.97 and £27.15. “Your tasks will be to conduct public health risk assessments, provide public health advise and use your clinical knowledge to escalate complex cases”.In fact most of the staff are between 18 and 20 and being paid the minimum hourly wage of £6.45.
Recently they have all been “upgraded“ to clinician level 6, but no training has been given.
So how has that gone?
As you might guess an absolute s..tshow.
Young tracers have been given calls where the person has just lost someone to covid and was in extreme distress, resulting in the young tracer being “distraught and crying“
They have had absolutely no training in bereavement counselling, but just the advise that If someone
is upset, give them time to talk!!
The government gave the instruction to Serco to upgrade these youngsters, and is using the pandemic to shift the boundaries between public and private provision, to restructure public health and pass lucrative contracts to poorly qualified private companies.
The inevitable result is a galactic cocky.
This is what you get from a government that values money above life.
Monbiot
29/10