NHS Covid-19 app – Digital Health https://www.digitalhealth.net News | Networks | Intelligence Fri, 31 Mar 2023 08:26:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://www.digitalhealth.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/cropped-dhi_roundal_512_wb-32x32.png NHS Covid-19 app – Digital Health https://www.digitalhealth.net 32 32 164930127 NHS Covid-19 app to close down on 27 April following decline in users https://www.digitalhealth.net/2023/03/nhs-covid-19-app-to-close-down-on-27-april-following-decline-in-users/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.digitalhealth.net/?p=152469 NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app

The NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app is to be discontinued on 27 April 2023 following a steady decline in the number of active users.

]]> 152469 Matthew Gould leaves NHS England and Improvement https://www.digitalhealth.net/2022/05/matthew-gould-leaves-nhs-england-improvement/ https://www.digitalhealth.net/2022/05/matthew-gould-leaves-nhs-england-improvement/#comments Wed, 04 May 2022 16:30:48 +0000 https://www.digitalhealth.net/?p=136175 Matthew Gould

The former CEO of NHSX, Matthew Gould, left NHS England and Improvement at the end of April 2022, Digital Health News has learned.

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The NHS Covid-19 app is set to be updated from August 16 to allow double jabbed people to add their vaccination status to skip isolation.

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The NHS Covid-19 app currently sends isolation notices to close contacts of people five days prior a positive test, but this will be reduced to two days.

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The government has announced the sectors where workers may qualify for an exemption to self-isolation rules if they are pinged by the NHS Covid-19 app.

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Transport secretary Grant Shapps has said the NHS Covid-19 app may need to be updated in line with coronavirus restrictions easing on July 19.

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The newly published procurement contract for the NHS Covid-19 app is valued at £10.26m and covers a period of six months from March to September.

]]> 118715 NHS App to be used as Covid-19 passport from May 17 https://www.digitalhealth.net/2021/05/nhs-app-to-be-used-as-covid-19-passport-from-may-17/ https://www.digitalhealth.net/2021/05/nhs-app-to-be-used-as-covid-19-passport-from-may-17/#comments Fri, 07 May 2021 16:25:57 +0000 https://www.digitalhealth.net/?p=117661

Announcing the countries that will be on the UK’s ‘green’ travel list the transport secretary said the app would be used as a Covid-19 passport from 17 May.

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Grant Shapps confirmed the app will be used a Covid-19 passport to prove vaccination status, or negative test, before going on holiday.

]]> https://www.digitalhealth.net/2021/04/nhs-app-to-be-used-as-covid-19-passport-transport-secretary-confirms/feed/ 50 117189 NHS Covid-19 app to share user’s venue check-in data https://www.digitalhealth.net/2021/04/nhs-covid-19-app-to-share-users-venue-check-in-data/ https://www.digitalhealth.net/2021/04/nhs-covid-19-app-to-share-users-venue-check-in-data/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:00:24 +0000 https://www.digitalhealth.net/?p=116325 NHS Covid-19 App

The update to the NHS Covid-19 app is due to be rolled out before venues including non-essential shops, gyms and outdoor hospitality open on 12 April.

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