Now counting tests that may never happen as actual tests.
This needs to be brought up at the daily briefing.

52,000 tests tues 27,000 people tested
82,000 tests wed 53,000 people tested
100,000 tests thurs . ? tested

wakey,wakey
looks like some of those doing testing have been told to test as many people twice as they can, 

depending on todays numbers could be over 100,000 wasted swab tests in 3 days,probably from start to result sent out over £200 per test
100,000 x 200 money through in the bin in 3 days,
didn't quite hear it earlier but Scottish failed tests were miniscule % wise compared to uk,s,maybe they have better trained staff to shove it up peoples noses

They need to give us test result numbers, not test kit numbers.
If they want to play the test kit game, they can add in the £20M worth of useless Chinese antibody test kits

it all come out in the wash cider,media all over these tests like the care homes,hanncock wont be able to blag his way through the numbers,
around 100,000 different people tested yesterday compared to wed,how many swabs do you think the testers will have messed up shoving up 100,000 different sized noses ,today

They did do something that was bit of creative accounting, apparently in the billion pieces of ppe delivered, a pair of gloves counted as 2 pieces

And if they'd cut the gowns in to quarters .........

Guardian? BBC? Communist Times?

The government has changed the way it is counting the number of covid-19 tests carried out in a bid to hit its target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April, HSJ can reveal.

Previously, a test would be counted once the sample had been processed in laboratories. But this definition has been changed in the last few days, a senior source told HSJ.

The Department of Health and Social Care is now including tests that have been posted or delivered to people’s homes in its figures. This means tests which are sent to people are counted before the recipient has provided and returned their sample to a laboratory.

HSJ understands that up to 50,000 of the tests that will be reported as having taken place on 30 April will actually represent the mailing or the agreeing to mail a home testing kit.

In the last seven days (23-30 April) the number of tests reported by the government rose from 23,560 to 81,611.

The source told HSJ that work to achieve the 100,000 tests per day had been “manic” and that the health and social care secretary Matt Hancock was “obsessed” with reaching the target. “They are trying every trick in the book,” the source said.

“They had to get the permanent secretary at DHSC (Chris Wormald) to agree to a change in the counting process.

“We’re now counting a home test as tests which have been sent to people’s homes.”

Testing for covid-19 has been predominantly carried out under two of Mr Hancock’s five “pillars”, within the government’s testing strategy.

These are tests at laboratories run by Public Health England and NHS hospitals (Pillar One) and swab tests at dozens of community sites across the UK (Pillar Two), with the latter including the posting of home testing kits and deliveries by companies such as Amazon.

HSJ understands around 27,000 home tests were posted to people yesterday as part of pillar two work. They will form part of today’s testing figures which are yet to be published. 

HSJ’s source said: “The view is that is unsustainable. It was just a massive one-day mission on the part of Amazon and the Royal Mail”.

HSJ understands the number of home test kits that have been returned by Amazon this week is about one one third of the number posted.

Meanwhile, the government has recently announced two testing programmes under Pillar Four, which will eventually include hundreds of thousands of people.

One of the programmes, announced on Wednesday and led by Imperial College, Imperial College Health Healthcare Trust and polling company Ipsos Mori, will see 100,000 home testing kits sent to people across the country. 

HSJ understands around 25,000 home testing kits were posted to people yesterday through this scheme. On Wednesday, only 1,150 tests under Pillar Four had been carried out.

The other Pillar Four programme, announced on 23 April, aims to track coronavirus in the general population and is led by the DHSC and Office for National Statistics, with the help of University of Oxford, data science company IQVIA UK and the National Biosample Centre in Milton Keynes.

Testing figures for yesterday will be announced later today.

The DHSC has been approached for comment.

unnamed source, same old shyte, may as well have been the guardian or bbc

will show out in the number of individual people tested ,which hancock probably won=t mention ,but will be in data,as ive posted only about 80,000 individual people tested out of 135,000 tests doesn't add upo

Cider, if it was proven to be true, would it come as a huge shock to you ?

if the nhs pro,s are messing up 40% of the tests legitimately[ not because of a hancock scam ] what % of home test kits where they,ll only have one go at it, are going to be messed up  ?
hancock will have to pay joe public to mess them up or joe public will make nhs workers taking the tests look totally incompetent,

The healthcare sector is littered with labour activists who won't be happy that it looks like Matt could achieve the target that seemed out of reach to many.

twatter ;)

send the question in angoose,i,m sure cummings will pick it out for hancock to answer, ,

cider your right about left leaning union types in public servicers,transporty,nhs,social care,schools,which is going to make it very bdifficult in unwinding this lockdown,
Brexit loons like bridgen stirtring labour/khan/union plots wont help, the last mayor  to have his trouser,s pulled down and spanked by LFT union was DORIS in run up to olympics

The media pushing the narrative of panic has a lot to answer for, broadcasting images of doctors and nurses in hazmat suits, mass graves in foreign countries etc. It wasn't representative but that's the image they put out.

saw an article somewhere this morning along the same lines

People are different though. Some will be genuinely scared, some will be itching to get back to normal, some will rinse it for what they can get away with.

tbh I'd be quite happy to carry on wfh personally, I'm not really a people person so permanently wfh is great!