A few years ago I would have laughed at anyone who would have told me that a private company would be using untrained teenagers armed with just a checklist to call seriously ill people as part of a track and trace process of a major disease The job as advertised in the NHS lists the qualifications reqired as ..., the NHS explains applicants must be at Clinician Band 6 level, who will be working as part of a team of “experienced clinicians”. You must have a health or science degree or “demonstrable equivalent experience or qualifications”; experience in “a field related to public health or health and social care services as a practitioner” and “registration with the relevant professional body”. But no Serco are just giving a 4 hour online learning course to unqualified call centre workers in some cases barely out of school and saying they are qualified to do the job Quote from a whisteblower below "So how has it gone? “As you might have guessed, it’s an absolute shitshow.” During the first hour of the first day, three of the young tracers called people who had just lost someone they loved to Covid-19. The people they spoke to were in extreme distress. After these calls, all three tracers “were distraught and crying”, and unable to work for the rest of the day." Full story here https://www.theguardian.com/comment...nd-coronavirus-covid-test-and-trace-teenagers The Tories are destroyiing the NHS and lining the pockets of their supporters who are delivering a far more expensive and vastly inferior product. I wish I had some way of stopping them but whilst a sizable chunk of the population think its better to vote for the Tories with their comforing lies I dont have a clue what to do
They've inserted Serco and firms like them into every front facing public service. @Jay spoke about his violent attack, the more I've thought about it, it got me wondering if those on the front desk at the police station were privately contracted staff? I might be totally wrong on this like, and I'm not for one second excusing or making excuses on behalf of SYP. The police now have loads of staff who are classed as civilians who are working in uniforms on Serco type contracts. They conduct interviews for perceived low level crime. It's been a very clever tactic of slowly inserting these firms into public service life. No training, no experience, lower wages, and more importantly no unions. It's a very slippery slope, and eventually the penny will drop but it'll be too late.
