Website allows doctors to track Covid in their area
A new free dashboard launched today will allow doctors and others to track the progression of Covid-19 throughout their local areas in England.
Currently in Beta stage, the Neighbourhood View dashboard brings together Coronavirus triage data, combined with Coronavirus cases, to show the latest trends, numbers and rates of coronavirus across each Middle Super Output Area (MSOA), in England.
It has been created by NHS Digital in partnership with analytics experts TrueCue.
The MSOA map lets people see cases within small areas of as little as 7,000 people. The advantage of presenting the data in this manner means a person can freely access and search any postcode for information about a neighbourhood for information on the presence of the virus in that area.
Data is presented up to the most recent week ending five days before the current calendar date. Data is refreshed daily and displays the most recent ten weeks of information, and is based on:
- The number of people with Coronavirus identified through an NHS lab or from commercial swab testing.
- Triage of Coronavirus symptoms through NHS Pathways by calls to NHS 111 and 999 and through NHS 111 online (this is the count of triages, not a count of people).
TrueCue, in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Aire Logic, worked directly with NHS Digital to design the dashboard.
TrueCue analytics director Tim Archer said: ‘The data available within the dashboard is based on publicly information data. Centralising this into a single platform means the public now have instant access to information, enabling them to understand the presence of the virus in a particular area. We’re confident this will make a seismic difference to communities right across England.’
The Neighbourhood View project will work tandem with the NHS Track and Trace service, helping the public to understand the prevalence of the disease in an area and surrounding neighbourhoods.
To preserve anonymity, figures are only shown for neighbourhoods that have had three or more cases or triages that week.
Access to the Neighbourhood View dashboard can be found here: https://digital.nhs.uk/dashboards/coronavirus-in-your-area