NHS Covid-19 app ‘important pillar’ in easing lockdown restrictions
A developer of the NHS Covid-19 app has said it is a “highly effective” tool to help control the spread of the virus as the UK exits lockdown.
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NHS Covid-19 App error ‘left thousands unaware they need to isolate’
The NHS Covid-19 App was set at the wrong sensitivity meaning users were not sent self-isolation alerts after they came into contact with infected people.
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Scotland’s contact-tracing app now interoperable with Northern Ireland’s
Through developing its own ‘federated server’ the Scottish government is ultimately hoping to allow interoperability of all contact-tracing apps in the UK.
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NHS Covid-19 app downloaded 10 million times since launch
Some six million people downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app on the first day it was launched, the Department of Health and Social Care said.
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Mobile health apps news in brief
This month’s mobile apps round up features the news NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG renewed a contract to provide a symptom checker app.
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app launched in England and Wales
After months of uncertainty the NHS contact-tracing app has today launched in England and Wales, allow users to check their symptoms and book a test.
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Total cost of NHS contact-tracing app set to top £35 million
Some £25 million is expected to be spent on the new app, while £10 million was spent developing the original operating model that was abandoned in June.
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Trials of NHS contact-tracing app ‘very encouraging’
Managing director of the app Simon Thompson said trials were ‘encouraging’ but did not provide figures on the number of people who had downloaded it.
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app to be launched in England and Wales
The contact-tracing app offers QR code check-in capability, allows users to book a free test and has an isolation countdown timer.
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Gould reveals lessons learned during development of contact-tracing app
Speaking at London Tech Week on 8 September Matthew Gould said NHSX “did what it was set up to do” during the development of the contact-tracing app.
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