Coronavirus (COVID-19) targeted community testing: national evaluation evidence and insights - final report

Annex A: TCT communication, learning and actions groups

Reference Group – A Scottish Government policy led group with open invitation to all partnership TCT programme leads and associated colleagues to attend. Held weekly via Teams and used as an opportunity to update the partnerships on SG programme developments; showcase partnership approaches to implementing the programme in different areas; forum to discuss challenges and solutions and for local areas to feedback their experiences.

Short Life Data Working Group – Public Health Scotland led group with open invitation to partnership analysts and attendance also by PHS, SG and SEPA analysts to discuss issues specific to the development of a restricted dashboard for partnership use to monitor and track virus data trends at test site and neighbourhood level to support targeting of testing resources. Initially envisaged as a short-life group but a core membership continued to work on the dashboard development for several months.

Mobile Testing Working Group – Scottish Government policy led group. This was a sub group of the Reference Group specifically set up to look at development of vehicular based mobile asymptomatic testing solutions.