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21 May 2020

NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app ‘delayed until June’

Health secretary Matt Hancock had previously said the app would be rolled out by mid-May, as had NHSX chief Matthew
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21 May 2020

App provides on-the-spot mental health crisis support

A team of trained mental health professionals will offer direct video support to responders and patients in a bid to
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20 May 2020

Centralised approach to contact-tracing app ‘based on shaky assumptions’

Privacy expert Polly Sanderson told Digital Health News there were “serious issues” associated with relying on the self-reporting of symptoms.
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20 May 2020

Three Scottish trusts trial Covid-19 contact-tracing software

The pilot will allow the trusts to test the software, which will be used by contact tracers to collect the
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19 May 2020

Draft bills calls for greater assurance of privacy in contact-tracing app

If the bill becomes law, government would be required to set up an independent contact-tracing app Privacy Tzar to monitor
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19 May 2020

Digital Health Unplugged: May news team debrief

Join Andrea Downey, Hannah Crouch and Jon Hoeksma as they look at the whether the app will be successful and
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
19 May 2020

Government ‘cannot rely on contact-tracing app to ease lockdown’

It is “critical” that capacity for contact-tracing is advanced for “further stages of managing the epidemic”, according to a government
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18 May 2020

Applications open for fifth cohort of DigitalHealth.London Accelerator

The DigitalHealth.London programme, now in its fifth year, aims to support start-ups looking to transform health and care, connecting them
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15 May 2020

Unreliable contact-tracing apps ‘could provide false sense of security’

The ethics advisory board tasked with overseeing the NHS contact-tracing app has raised concerns about the reliability of an app
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15 May 2020

Google Analytics trackers in contact-tracing app code ‘risks re-identification’

NHSX has always maintained the code for the contact-tracing app would be made publicly available, but currently only the front-end
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