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Data extraction to inform Scottish COVID-19 Response Consortium: epidemiological modelling and Data-driven now-casting & forecasting of health-care resource requirements associated with COVID-19

Safe People

Organisation name

University of Edinburgh

Organisation sector

Academic Institute

Applicant name(s)

Helen Brown

Safe Projects

Project ID

eDRIS-2021-0071

Lay summary

The Scottish Covid-19 Response Consortium (SCRC) is developing a suite of open source epidemiological and statistical models of COVID-19, and reproducible validation pipelines to show how these models relate to source data and assumptions. This includes testing of models, both against one another and in terms of their real world predictions. The aim of this work is to provide a transparent evidence base to inform the formation of policy in response to the pandemic. We aim to develop models and analyses that quantify key aspects of disease spread from available data, and then use this information to enable data-driven assessment of potential public health interventions such as the impact of lockdowns, wider testing and track and trace programmes and the impact of potential vaccines. We also aim to generate evidence based data-driven predictions of the effect of COVID-19 on short- and long-term demands on primary health care and hospital resources in Scotland. This will help individual health care units and hospitals in Scotland to better allocate resource, and government to coordinate distribution of resources across units. Source: Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care

Latest approval date

20/10/2020

Safe Data

Dataset(s) name

Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS)

NHS24

COVID19 test

COVID19 Vaccination

Safe Setting

Access type

TRE