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PHE and Department for Education COVID-19 Testing kit support helpline
We’ve set up a contact centre helpline to support schools get additional COVID-19 testing kits for staff who are symptomatic.
This ensures that staff who test negative can return to work quickly, which helps the continuity of education for students…
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…
Informing at risk patients
Working with a range of NHS organisations, we've helped to identify people who are at particular risk from coronavirus and need extra shielding arrangements.
Clinicians from NHS England and Innovation, NHS Digital and Public Health England defined…
Helping to staff our frontline
Our NHS Jobs COVID-19 indicator tool on the NHS Jobs platform helps users to find roles related to COVID-19.
Since it's launch, we've had 9,641 vacancies advertised with over 9.5 million advert views and…
Digital maternity exemption certificates
We're encouraging midwives, practice nurses and health visitors to sign up to the digital service to help reduce the waiting time for paper applications to be processed during the pandemic.
Pregnant and new…
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…
NHS 111 self-isolation texts
We're helping to send daily texts from the NHS to new patients who register their coronavirus symptoms and contact details with the 111 online service.
Messages are sent to people who have been asked to self…
Dental telephone triage reporting
During the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, dental practices in England are triaging patients and where necessary, referring them to a local Urgent Dental Care hub.
All data collected during the triage calls must be captured, stored and available…
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…
Advice service for universities and higher education provider COVID-19 leads
We’re supporting Public Health England and the Department for Education by delivering an additional channel of support for COVID-19 leads at universities and higher education providers.
Our trained advisors are undertaking risk assessments to…