By Government urged to share more coronavirus data
Health bosses in Lincolnshire are urging the Government to share more data in order to help them respond to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Weekly figures for the Lincolnshire area are being released by Public Health England.
However, some national data isn’t filtered down to a local level, including details of where contact tracing takes place.
Professor Ward, director of public health for Lincolnshire, says:
“There’s a really strong argument to say that, absolutely, while central government needs to have a view right the way across the country, people in London aren’t going to know and be able to manage the situation here as well as people in Lincolnshire.”
Currently, health bosses build their understanding of the local situation from figures around daily hospital and care home testing, antibody testing and the Office for National Statistics.
GPs are also set to begin receiving details of test and trace contacts.
But, Professor Ward says his team currently relies on regional colleagues calling them on an ad hoc basis about cases escalated to the top tier.
“We only find out about it when they pick up the phone and tell us.
“That, to me, is a single point of failure risk,” he said.
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