NHSX turns one: Digital Health News looks back
As NHSX turns one, Digital Health News has looked back on what has happened since the organisation was officially launched.
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Timeline: What happened to the NHS contact-tracing app
Digital Health’s senior reporter, Andrea Downey, looks back at the NHS contact-tracing app, which was first announced back in March.
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Covid-19 tracking tool appears on smartphones – but it’s not an app
The new exposure notification settings are part of an update to the operating systems, which will enable an app to run in the background.
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Results of first week of test and trace are in – app is still out
The app was designed to speed up the process of contact-tracing, with epidemiologists previously warning manual contact-tracing would be too slow.
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NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app ‘delayed until June’
Health secretary Matt Hancock had previously said the app would be rolled out by mid-May, as had NHSX chief Matthew Gould.
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Centralised approach to contact-tracing app ‘based on shaky assumptions’
Privacy expert Polly Sanderson told Digital Health News there were “serious issues” associated with relying on the self-reporting of symptoms.
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Draft bills calls for greater assurance of privacy in contact-tracing app
If the bill becomes law, government would be required to set up an independent contact-tracing app Privacy Tzar to monitor its use and deal with complaints.
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Government ‘cannot rely on contact-tracing app to ease lockdown’
It is “critical” that capacity for contact-tracing is advanced for “further stages of managing the epidemic”, according to a government committee.
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Data from NHS contact-tracing app ‘to be kept for research purposes’
NHSX has always maintain that data would be deleted if a user chose to remove the app, but a spokesperson has confirmed some will be retained for research.
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NHSX CEO dismisses private sector involvement in contact-tracing app
Matthew Gould has said he wants to “knock on the head” any suggestion that data from the NHS contact-tracing app will be shared with the private sector.
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