Hospital chiefs ‘increasingly frustrated’ with UK testing failures
NHS Providers lambasts comprehensively missed target of 100,000 daily test as a ‘red herring’
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Hospital leaders have launched a strident attack on the government’s coronavirus testing strategy, as it became clear that the target of 100,000 daily tests by 30 April would be comprehensively missed.
NHS Providers, which represents foundation trusts in England, rounded on ministers for “a series of frequent tactical announcements” to expand testing criteria, and dismissed the 100,000 target as a “red herring” that distracted from their failures.
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