Contact-tracing app

Archive
5 August 2020

An app for the next pandemic

As the government is advised to improve its Test and Trace Programme, Dr Philip Scott, from BCS, explores how we
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VSS New Zealand Panel
24 July 2020

Virtual Summer School gets New Zealand’s perspective of Covid-19

The deputy director for general data and digital at New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has said the coronavirus pandemic has
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23 July 2020

Code for Ireland’s Covid Tracker app given to global public health project

The move would allow countries around the world to build their own app based on the code for Ireland's Covid
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
22 July 2020

Hancock refuses to provide roll-out date for contact-tracing app

When questioned on the progress of the app Hancock told a parliamentary committee it would be rolled-out “as soon as
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Westminster
7 July 2020

House of Lords committee press for NHS Covid-19 app roll-out date

The managing director of the NHS Covid-19 app has a committee that the introduction of the technology is “urgent and
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Results are in
1 July 2020

More than two thirds of readers agree with contact-tracing app U-turn

More than two thirds of Digital Health readers have said they agreed with the government’s U-turn on the NHS contact-tracing
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NHS Contact-Tracing App
25 June 2020

NHSX ‘knew contact-tracing app wouldn’t work on iPhones in April’

Apple and Google's APIs only work with a decentralised system, which leaves many iPhones incompatible with the NHS centralised contact-tracing
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Digital Health News Poll
24 June 2020

Poll: Did the gov make the right decision about the contact-tracing app?

In light of the government U-turn on the NHS contact-tracing app, Digital Health News wants the opinion of our readers
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24 June 2020

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
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NHS Contact-Tracing App
23 June 2020

Tory peer reveals NHS contact-tracing app has cost £11.8m to date

The NHS contact-tracing app has so far cost £11.8million, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for innovation has revealed in the
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