In late May 2020, as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK Government issued a policy requiring all NHS workers to be offered antibody testing within 6 weeks. This was then extended to all health and social care staff in July with 4-6 weeks to deliver. This presented some key challenges as initially results had to be manually matched to individuals using NHS numbers. A case study summarising how, in Dorset, an automated solution was developed and implemented to meet these challenges is available to view here.
