A private firm running more than 150 NHS Covid-19 testing centres, which recorded nearly £95m profit in just two years, is axing more than 5,000 jobs – letting all but 21 people go without a penny, The Independent can reveal.
Sodexo – which manages the sites on behalf of the Department for Health and has been among firms in receipt of lucrative taxpayer-funded contracts during the pandemic – has boasted its test centre workforce is “equivalent to the size of four major police forces”.
