Surveillance and Study support:
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National community COVID-19 surveillance |
The Oxford Royal College of General Practice (RCGP) Sentinel Surveillance Network are conducting viral swabbing of symptomatic people and random antibody sampling, via an extra serology sample with routine bloods, in asymptomatic individuals. Initially provided through 100 practices, this has been rapidly scaled up to 300 and aims to reach 1000 practices. This work is a partnership with Public Health England. Further epidemiological data will be available from a wider number of practices (2-3000) who are not sampling but will collect COVID-19 codes. |
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National COVID-19 Clinical Informatics hub |
To support a number of major COVID-19 research programmes the ARC, through its Digital Health theme, supported the rapid engineering of a new national primary care digital platform – the Oxford RCGP Clinical Informatics Digital Hub (ORCHID). This is to provide a secure, scalable, and resilient digital database capable of supporting the PRINICPLE trial, RAPTOR COVID-19 and community surveillance projects, and providing a clinical informatics hub. |
Recent ARC OxTV news
Oxford-developed support for child anxiety to be adapted for families in Chile
24 June 2025
The successful parent-led programme, developed with support from the NIHR ARC OxTV, is being culturally adapted in a new international collaboration.
New Care Planning Resources Launch to Support Care Homes Across Oxford and Thames Valley and Beyond
19 June 2025
Free resources to help care homes create effective, person-centred care plans for residents have been launched to mark Care Home Open Week 2025 (16–22 June).