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Covid-19: NHS contact-tracing app launched in Isle of Wight

4 May 2020

The contact-tracing app will form part of the next phase of the governments test and trace approach to help stop the spread of coronavirus.

Advanced helping self-isolating clinicians take NHS 111 calls from home

4 May 2020

Advanced has helped clinicians in self isolation to continue to take NHS 111 calls after it extended its patient management system, Adastra.

UK Biobank collating Covid-19 data for future research purposes

3 May 2020

The team, led by chief executive Sir Rory Collins, will develop a resource for 15,000 approved researchers from 85 countries using datasets provided by PHE.

GCHQ granted powers over NHS IT systems during Covid-19 outbreak

1 May 2020

GCHQ was granted additional powers by Matt Hancock, allowing them to request anything “relating to the security of any network and information system”.

Covid-19: BAME data must not become ‘hot potato too difficult to confront’

1 May 2020

The Shuri Network called for a “stronger focus” from leaders to address inequalities following anaylsis that revealed disproportionate BAME deaths.

Privacy measures need to be in place if contact-tracing apps are to work

1 May 2020

Those making Covid-19 tracing apps need to have the right privacy measures in place if they are to convince the public to use them, a BCS report has said.