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NHS Test and Trace was a government-funded service in England, established in 2020 to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19.The programme is part of the UK Health Security Agency; the service and the agency are headed by Jenny Harries.
Test, Trace, Protect is a government-funded service in Wales, first published on 13 May 2020 by the Welsh Government to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Its aim is to "enhance health surveillance in the community, undertake effective and extensive contact tracing, and support people to self-isolate".
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NHSmail is an email, diary and directory system for National Health Service (NHS) employees in England and Scotland. The system is not for patients of the NHS. Retired NHS staff do not have access. NHSmail previously allowed faxes to be sent, however this was phased out at the end of March 2015.
The NHS would also arrange for a swab test of the unwell user and the outcome would determine further notifications to contacts: if the test confirmed infection with COVID-19, the contacts would be asked to isolate. [22] By June 2020, £11.8 million had been spent on the app; [24] in 2020–21, £35 million was spent on the app. [25]
A few PHE staff moved to NHS England/Improvement or to NHS Digital. [citation needed] While it was originally announced that PHE would be wound up on 31 March 2021, the body continued to have a 'shadow existence' until 1 October 2021, to support the transition of responsibilities to its successor organisations.
The NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app for England and Wales was released on 24 September 2020. The NHS app uses Google/Apple exposure notification technology. (The NHS previously tried a centralised system rather than a decentralised approach). Scotland and Northern Ireland contact tracing apps were launched in the weeks prior to England & Wales.
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