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Our response to coronavirus (COVID-19)
We're working on a variety of projects and tools to support health and care as part of the government response to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Keeping our essential workers safe
We're working with NHSX, Public Health England and other organisations to create a digital platform that is critical to the essential worker testing programme.
The programme tests all essential workers who have developed symptoms and will: …
Coronavirus status checker
We researched, designed and implemented the coronavirus status checker.
The checker is a survey that asks the public about their experience of coronavirus. This helps the NHS to understand the virus better.
The Coronavirus status checker has now…
Funding for community pharmacies
We’ve worked with NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care to make payments of £300million to 10,000 community pharmacies.
The payments are to support the unprecedented demand on their services and to reflect their outstanding…
Pharmacy, Opthalmic and General Practice Provider Assurance support
We’re supporting initiatives from DHSC, NHSE/I along with Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and other specialist providers.
We’ve been involved in over 15 specific activities across Pharmacy, Ophthalmic and General Practice.
NHS Jobs partnering with LinkedIn, Azunda and Reed
We’re working with LinkedIn, Azunda and Reed to prioritise COVID-19 related roles advertised through our NHS Jobs platform and help encourage more staff to the NHS frontline.
Both sites have provided their services free of charge and are…
Connecting the new Nightingale Hospital
We provided the technical expertise to connect the new Nightingale Hospital London with the existing health and social care data network.
The data network connects all NHS organisations and is key to running…
Supporting NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) convalescent plasma trial
We've supported NHSBT by sending text messages to over 65,000 people which directed them to a link where they could volunteer to donate. In the first two days, over 10,000 people signed up as potential donors.
We're also sending text messages to…
Support for primary care through Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD)
We're working at a national and local scale to help identify patients suitable for eRD and maximise its use.
Maximising eRD will help to:
cut down visits to GP practices and community pharmacies
support…
Communicating with the social care workforce
A new Care Workforce App (social care) app has been developed to provide direct communications with the social care workforce.
The app has been built on the concept of the NHS Life app which we prototyped in 2019.
The new Care Workforce App (…