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@Chalfie
It's annoying because :
As an organisation we went through a big reorganisation already, we made plans that our analytical capacity was available across each of the 5 key areas and that better warehousing and skills were distributed.
The basics of health Protection have stayed the same, just fewer people/less budget. Health protection works best when you work with your local authority. When you're not sharing data and the local authority doesn't have capacity to trace, well. It's made even more difficult.
The point about testing capacity, well, path labs got closed down and the service is run in hospitals by hospitals/private companies. In addition, tests have to be validated and there wasn't enough capacity on house I'm guessing.
And then finally, we were supposed to be moving to Harlow soon. Taking over a site that glaxo ran. With better facilities and more space for the national infection service and also the people from porton.
Harlow council will be pissed off about this.