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Chelsea and Westminster
22 July 2021

Chelsea and Westminster launch Acute Covid app for NHS staff

An app which supports NHS staff redeployed to care for Covid patients has been launched by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
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29 June 2020

Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’

Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with “strong political connections” that have access to the data.
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26 June 2020

Reassurance on privacy of contact-tracing app remains ‘crucial’

Harriet Harman, chair of the joint human rights committee, has written to Matt Hancock requesting further information on how data
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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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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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18 June 2020

Government abandons contact-tracing app for Apple and Google’s tech

A parallel version of the NHS contact-tracing app using Apple and Google’s technology had been in the pipeline since early
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
12 June 2020

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
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12 June 2020

‘Apparent failure’ of contact-tracing app hinders test and trace system

A report criticised the government’s decision to develop a centralised contact-tracing model, raising concerns about “confidentiality and security of data".
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11 June 2020

Contact-tracing app data ‘could feed into NHS Covid-19 data store’

The data protection impact assessment on the store, managed by Palantir, provides a look at how data will inform the
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NHS 111 Coronavirus
5 June 2020

Recovering Covid-19 patients given devices to spot dips in oxygen levels

Those recovering from Covid-19 are to be given devices which can help spot dips in their blood oxygen-levels while they recover at
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