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
Pharmaceutical companies reduce own greenhouse gas emissions, but action on supply chains needed
3 March 2023
Pharmaceutical companies are reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, but can only meet their targets with support from their suppliers, shows first study of commitments and progress by the sector.
Research from NIHR ARC OxTV supported researchers key in new all-party government report evaluating government commitments on the digitisation of the NHS.
20 February 2023
The report, authored by a panel of independent experts, gave the government's progress an "inadequate" rating, raising questions about the Government's capacity to guarantee that the health and social care systems have the digital underpinnings they require to meet the challenges they face.