Coronavirus: Contact Tracing

(asked on 2nd November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve connectivity between the national COVID-19 contact tracing system and local outbreak control systems; and if they have any such plans, what are the timescales by which they expect to make any such changes.


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Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 15th December 2020

Since its inception, NHS Test and Trace has worked closely with local authorities and local directors of public health.

Local Tracing Partnerships, first announced on 5 August, use local knowledge about communities and individuals to help ensure contact tracers reach the greatest possible proportion of people who have tested positive, both to help identify any support needs for them and other members of their households and to gather information about their recent contacts. As at 8 December, 275 Local Tracing Partnerships are in place, with more in implementation.

Local Tracing Partnerships involve local and national teams working together and sharing data as appropriate to ensure an integrated approach to contact tracing, support for self-isolation and preventing and managing local outbreaks.

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