Quote Originally Posted by Vindec View Post
I had to come back to correct you. The Roles of the bodies in Wales is set out in a government paper which states:

Roles and Responsibilities
Individuals – following public health advice, hand washing, social distancing, reporting symptoms and self-isolating when necessary.

Welsh Government – provide strategic direction, oversight, determine priorities and provide resources to enable test, trace, protect.

Public Health Wales (PHW) – our expert National Public Health body providing leadership and specialist advice on public health approaches. Responsible for coordinating contact tracing, advising on sampling and testing, laboratory analysis of tests, health surveillance and providing expert health protection advice and analysis of the spread of the virus in our communities through a range of health surveillance indicators.

Local health boards and local authorities – providing a wealth of contact tracing experience and working in collaboration to deliver regionally coordinated local contact tracing teams – a mix of clinical and non-clinical staff who can support those who are symptomatic or have tested positive and their close contacts to stay safe. This will sit alongside their existing role to provide testing facilities and environmental and public health responses to local outbreaks and clusters or preventative action in areas regarded as high risk.
So, are you saying the UK Government has no say in testing and tracing in Wales, because there is no mention of them in what you have listed. If so, how does that tie in with the story on the weekend about the testing centre in Porth (I can't remember if it had the capacity to do three or five hundred tests a day) being told by central Government to do just sixty, which was then raised to a hundred and twenty after representations by the Welsh Government?

That is the sort of administration I mean, the sort that was at the heart of the opening story on last night's Newsnight where the point was made that while the Government deserves credit for the big increase in testing numbers compared to the spring, they are, clearly, not getting the best out of the system at present.