these capabilities are simply used to inform the user as to whether they have been near anyone who has contracted COVID-19. The app also makes use of local notifications which detect when the app is killed by the system
The Coronavirus community testing unit returns to Callander this Thursday, 1st July, to help slow the spread of the virus across Stirling. With a rising number of positive Covid tests being recorded across Scotland, the testing units are part of a national programme of walk-in testing for peop...
The open data and data visualisation team at NHS Digital was tasked to quickly gather, analyse, and share data related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was used to inform rapid decision making and policy creation, and inform the public. Public facing data was aggregate and anonymous, with priv...
Utilising qualitative interview data from a larger COVID-19 study, this paper provides insights into influences on and the enactment of national COVID-19 testing strategies for health care workers (HCWs) in English NHS settings during wave one of the COVID-19 pandemic (March鈥揂ugust 2020). ...
First public-facing “coronavirus-in-your-area” dashboard received 120,000 visitors during first 24 hours Data gathered, analysed and shared related to Covid-19 pandemic used to inform rapid decision making and policy creation, and inform the public分享...
The use of daily trust-wide email updates has been employed by most NHS organizations to inform staff of updates within their own workplace. PPE In the surgical setting, COVID-19 transmission can occur through droplet, aerosol, and contact spread. PPE is required to mitigate against each of ...
They said doctors should already be informing parents of the likely effectiveness of tonsillectomy, "and should now also inform them that most children with either recurrent sore throats or sleep apnoea do not undergo tonsillectomy and have no need to". Co-author Tom Marshall, professor or ...
The idea being that if you start to experience symptoms in line with COVID-19, you then self report these into an app and that then lets everyone you came into contact with know to self-isolate too. The development of these contact tracing apps have been aided by Google and Apple coming...
(the intervention period), while a control group was composed of Trusts which did not possess or obtain any such capabilities during the entire study period, including a two-year follow-up period. We ended follow-up in 2019, prior to encountering effects from the COVID-19 pandemic on ...
Since March 2021, a cohort of 35 inpatient hospital sites have been working with the SPOT board, supported by the 15 patient safety collaboratives across England, to coordinate local testing teams; review local processes for deterioration identification, escalation and response; inform finalisation of...