Ministers have been saying test for a long time now. But if you want to play civil servant lawyer and argue "any failing part of the British healthcare system

Ministers have been saying test for a long time now. But if you want to play civil servant lawyer and argue "any failing part of the British healthcare system isn't really the NHS", go for it. From the international perspective nobody cares. Public Health England is the Department of Health is the NHS is the government. How the government divides up responsibility between variously branded bureaucracies doesn't alter the overall outcomes, nor the reasons for them. The UK centralised all CV testing in a bureaucracy that was quickly overwhelmed, didn't scale up, didn't involve the private sector and didn't react quickly to need. Privately run healthcare systems managed all these things.