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Serco do not deserve a new contact-tracing contract – give the money to local authorities
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Paulette Edwards asks about our Seldom Heard Communities docuseries, on BBC Radio Sheffield’s Mid-morning show
Click here to listen (Clip starts at 1:09:15)
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Documentary made by Hallam graduates shows how Sheffield BAMER community came together during pandemic
Credit: www.scci.org.uk
Revealed: How Sheffield is split as volunteer project finds inequalities in Covid-19 vaccine uptake
Credit: www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk
Documentary shows how community came together
This article later featured in a print edition of The Sheffield Star on Thursday 15th April.
Credit: www.shu.ac.uk
Watch a new short film looking at the impact of Covid-19 on Sheffield’s communities of colour
Credit: www.nowthenmagazine.com
COVID-19 test and trace scandal – it’s not too late to change the story
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Bing Jones: The medical establishment is failing the UK public on COVID-19
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Sheffield contact tracing group launches documentary series
Credit: www.sheffieldwire.co.uk
Contact tracing of in-patients with COVID-19: the use of volunteers to enhance NHS Test and Trace
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A celebration of community collaboration – the “vaccine” makers give us hope
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The Covid vaccination programme is an achievement, but must not lead to more health inequalities
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Dr Bing Jones, from Sheffield Community Contact Tracers, speakers to Caroline Martin about Test and Trace.
Click here to listen (Clip starts at 16:41)
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Health group warns Sheffield faces ‘endless cycle of lockdowns’ after Test and Trace ‘disaster’.
Credit: www.thestar.co.uk
We must stop being polite about Test and Trace – There comes a point where it becomes culpable
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It is not too late for local authorities to start leading contact tracing
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Sheffield Community Contact Tracers
The story of how a group of retired healthcare professionals in Sheffield were shocked by the government’s approach to coronavirus contract tracing – and decided they could do better.
Credit: www.nowthenmagazine.com
Covid-19: Better contact tracing could help save lives and the economy
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Little trace of sense in outsourced coronavirus test regime
Credit: www.theguardian.com/uk
There’s too much emphasis on testing, we also need better diagnosis to control the spread of coronavirus
Credit: www.independent.co.uk/
Best practice in contact tracing: How should an effective system be organised?
Credit: www.bmj.com
We deserve to see the test and trace contracts with private companies
Credit: weownit.org.uk/
Sheffield Group Set Up For Track And Trace
Credit: Mark Metcalf – www.bigissuenorth.com/
Dr Jillian Creasy shares with Eryal TV the work of the Sheffield Community Contact Tracers
Credit: Eryal Multimedia Hub
Local authorities need extra resources to lead contact tracing now
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Open Letter From The Voluntary And Community Sector Of Sheffield To Health Secretary Matt Hancock
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Government accused of ignoring lessons from Sheffield contact tracers
Credit: www.thestar.co.uk
Contact tracing is working around the world
– here’s what the UK needs to do to succeed too
Credit: theconversation.com/uk
UK contact tracing system is ‘full of weak links’, warns leader of volunteer pilot scheme
Credit: www.telegraph.co.uk
COVID-19: Contact Tracing Pilot Finds Resistance in Contacted Health Care Workers
Credit: Priscilla Lynch, Medscape
Sheffield community contact tracers: training community volunteers to undertake contact tracing for covid-19
Credit: www.bmj.com
Covid-19: Two thirds of people contacted through tracing did not fully cooperate, pilot scheme finds
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Test and trace trial ‘failure’ as two-thirds taking part didn’t fully co-operate
Credit: www.mirror.co.uk/
Expert reaction to pilot report by Sheffield Community Contact Tracers looking at response and compliance to contact tracing for COVID-19
Credit: www.sciencemediacentre.org/
Coronavirus: Government faces ‘major challenge’ to persuade health staff to self-isolate
Credit: iNews
‘UK’s first coronavirus contact-tracing group warns of difficulties’
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‘Train and deploy a community level public health workforce to combat covid-19’
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‘We urgently need to start contact tracing to stop the spread of covid-19’
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Sheffield Community Contact Tracers article BBC News: Sheffield South Yorkshire.
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‘Covid-19: environmental health officers and retired doctors step up to fill contact tracing void’
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Episode 2: Contact Tracing
Dr Jack Czauderna joins Doctors in Unit podcast to talk about contract tracing and his upcoming coronavirus pilot study in Sheffield.
Credit: www.doctorsinunite.com