Jenny Harries
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| Gender | Female |
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| Age | 65 |
| Date of birth | October 26,1958 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Monmouth |
| United Kingdom | |
| Education | University of Birmingham |
| Prime minist | Boris Johnson |
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| ID | 3459042 |
Jenny Harries Life story
Dame Jennifer Margaret Harries DBE is a British public health physician who has been the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency and head of NHS Test and Trace since April 2021.
Covid inquiry: Michael Gove defends Boris Johnson over lockdown decision-making
... Former deputy chief medical officer Professor Dame Jenny Harries is due to give evidence later on Tuesday...
Covid and flu winter jabs to be brought forward in England
... The UK s vaccine experts, the JCVI, advise that the following groups should be offered a Covid-19 vaccine this autumn: People eligible for a free flu vaccine Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UKHSA, said new Covid variants were expected to emerge and there was limited information on BA...
Bibby Stockholm: No one harmed over discovery of Legionella on barge - health secretary
... Prof Dame Jenny Harries, the chief executive of the agency, said that legionella bacteria detected in routine tests would not " necessarily indicate there is a systemic problem"...
Porton Down: Can this laboratory help stop the next pandemic?
... " Covid, of course, is not a one-off, " says Prof Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which runs these laboratories...
Covid Inquiry: What have we learnt so far?
... Other witnesses, including Dame Jenny Harries, the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), appeared to contradict Mr Cameron, describing the government s flu plan as " actually pretty good"...
Covid testing scaled back further in England
... The testing that is ending includes: Lateral-flow tests will continue for: UKHSA chief executive Dr Dame Jenny Harries said: " Fewer people now experience severe illness due to Covid - due to vaccinations, infection-related immunity and treatments for those who need them - and the risk of hospitalisation has decreased overall...
Immensa lab errors may have led to 23 Covid-19 deaths
... " Jenny Harries, UKHSA chief executive, said: " I fully accept the findings and recommendations made in this report, many of which were implemented as soon as UKHSA discovered the incident...
Covid: UK hospital cases set to rise, says health chief
... Hospital cases and infections are down on earlier highs but Dame Jenny Harries told the BBC said there could still be an impact on treating other patients...
Immensa lab errors may have led to 23 Covid-19 deaths
By Matthew HillBBC West Health correspondent
Staff mistakes in a private laboratory may have caused 23 extra deaths from Covid-19.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) makes The Claim in a report into errors at the.
It says as many as 39,000 positive results were wrongly reported as negative in September and October 2021.
The mistakes led to " increased numbers of [hospital] admissions and deaths" The Report , concluded.
Thousands of people, many in The South West, were wrongly told to stop testing after their results were processed by Immensa.
The Wolverhampton laboratory was used for additional testing capacity for NHS Test and Trace from early September 2021, but testing was suspended on 12 October following reports of inaccurate results.
Experts said were down to people unwittingly infecting others when they should have been isolating.
UKHSA experts said the mistakes could have led to as many as 55,000 additional infections in areas where the false negatives were reported.
" Each incorrect negative test likely led to just over two additional infections, " The Report said.
" In those same geographical areas, our results also suggest an increased number of admissions and deaths. "
Immensa was paid More Than £100m to carry out Covid testing for the NHS during the pandemic.
The UKHSA said a total of about 400,000 samples had been processed at the Wolverhampton lab.
'Staff errors' to blame" The Cause [of the mistakes] was the incorrect setting of the threshold levels for reporting positive and negative results of PCR samples for COVID-19, " said the UKHSA.
" Based on background infection rates in different population groups at The Time , UKHSA estimated that this error could have led to around 39,000 results being incorrectly reported as negative when they should have been positive. "
Richard Gleave, UKHSA director and lead investigator, said: " Through this investigation we have looked carefully at the arrangements in place for overseeing contracts of private labs providing surge testing during This Time .
" We have concluded that staff errors within Immensa's Wolverhampton laboratory were The Immediate cause of the incorrect reporting of COVID-19 PCR test results in September and October 2021.
" It is our view that there was no single action that NHS Test and Trace could have taken differently to prevent this error arising in the private laboratory.
" However, our report sets out clear recommendations to both reduce The Risk of incidents like this happening again and ensure that concerns are addressed and investigated rapidly. "
Jenny Harries , UKHSA chief executive, said: " I fully accept the findings and recommendations made in this report, many of which were implemented as soon as UKHSA discovered The Incident .
" These ongoing improvements will enhance our ability to spot problems sooner where they do arise. "
Dante Labs, The Owners of Immensa, have been contacted for comment.
Source of news: bbc.com
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