The combination of the people, skills, expertise, and tooling helped the NHS Digital team overcome several challenges, such as the amount of traffic hitting the COVID “in-your-area” dashboard when it went live. The team used Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN) service built...
The latest change to the booking system will further speed up the booster vaccine rollout. “The Covid-19 booster programme is making great progress – thank you to the NHS and everybody who has come forward so far to secure vital protection ahead of the winter," said...
In a note from an emergency meeting of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) last week, experts said that although data on the new strain are limited, a large number of infections "may overwhelm NHS capacity." Late on Tuesday, lawmakers ...
COG-UK Consortium has been created to deliver large-scale & rapid whole-genome virus sequencing to NHS centres and the UK government - COG-UK
Wales and England'sfamously poor $50 million NHS COVID appis currently under criticism for sending almost 700,000 self-isolation alerts in the week of July 14-21, 2021. Now known locally as the "pingdemic," these alerts have become so numerous that the UK government has cut back on its...
24, 2020 file photo, a view of an iphone showing the new NHS COVID-19 mobile phone contact tracing application after the app went live. The British government has sought to ease food supply pressures in England by exempting more than 10,000 workers from quarantine rules that had led to...
England's National Health Service is building temporary structures at hospitals around the country to prepare for a possible surge of COVID-19 patients as the highly transmissible omicron variant fuels a new wave of infections.
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The U.K. will begin its autumn COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the coming weeks after authorizing booster shots made by Pfizer and Moderna that have been modified to target both the original virus and the widely circulating omicron variant. ...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks with a volunteer during a visit to a National Health Service (NHS) coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination centre near Ramsgate, Britain, December 16, 2021. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) - Most adults in Britain...
It is because of "sustained high levels of demand, COVID and non-COVID, and availability of beds," McNamara added. "We always knew that January would be a tough month for everyone and our modeling shows that it is likely to get tougher in the next few weeks." ...