has repeatedly covered concerns among public health directors about the level of information they are receiving from the government’s private sector-run testing facilities, known as ‘pillar two’ of the programme.
They consider daily patient-identifiable results - as opposed to the anonymised weekly data they get at present - not only crucial to their efforts on the ground, but also a legal requirement.Last week Mr Burnham said he believed the government was withholding the figures on patient confidentiality grounds, but when the M.E.N.