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Emily van de Venter Associate Director of Public Health

NHS Test & Trace: Working together to support communities

Agenda

• Meeting guidelines for maximum engagement
• Welcome & introduction of Chair & keynote speaker and panel members –

Mike

• Coronavirus: Working together to support communities – Emily van de

Venter, Associate Director of Public Health

• Questions to the panel
• · Pre-submitted questions
• · Questions from the audience
• Summary, next steps & thank you
• Close

What we will cover

• On-going support available to communities
• The pattern of new cases in Warwickshire
• Key prevention measures we can all take
• What ‘Test and Trace’ is and how it works
• How you can help

Ongoing Support – Localities Team

• Thank you to the 304 'pop up' groups and existing groups who adapted

their offer to support communities across Warwickshire, 74 of which were in the North, 56 in Rugby and 174 in the South

• All groups formed part of the COVID-19 Community Support Directory

which was set up to respond to the pandemic and support communities. Mobilisation of these groups was amazing and the directory can, at the moment, be used as a networking tool to keep in touch with each other. Link attached to the directory https://apps.warwickshire.gov.uk/covid19directory/

• These groups responded to numerous requests for help, directly from

residents and via the Councils Shielding Helpline.

• To be the point of contact when it comes to support Post COVID-

19 i.e. volunteering opportunities, funding etc as well as also supporting some form of legacy from the groups going forward I.e. COVID-19 network group and helping with the T&T/later stages of the pandemic

• Contact details for the Localities & Communities Officers
• loriharvey@warwickshire.gov.uk (N Warks)
• mikeslemensek@warwickshire.gov.uk (Nuneaton & Bedworth)
• amandawilsonpatterson@warwickshire.gov.uk (Stratford)
• alistairrigby@warwickshire.gov.uk (Warwick)
• Rugby is being covered by Lori, Amanda and Alistair

Ongoing Support – Localities Team

Than Thank you! k you!

Daily number of cases in Warwickshire (to 20th July)

Preventing spread

Test and Trace – contact tracing

• Next vital step in controlling coronavirus
• Following a case of a disease - identifying people at risk and tracking where it

came from

• Finding out who they have been in contact with before and after symptoms start
• risk assess contacts for likely transmission
• understanding the connection back to other known cases and clusters
• Advising on control measures to reduce the risk to the contacts
• can still be time to reduce the risk of transmission to other contacts
• ‘warn and inform’ on recognising the symptoms
• advise on control measures to prevent further spread should the contact have

To provide, where possible, the names and contact details for the people you have had close contact with. If you work in, or have recently visited, a setting with other people (e.g. GP surgery, school, workplace, bar). If you have had any close contact with anyone else in in the 48 hours before your symptoms started and while symptoms present If you have family/household members living with you (they must self-isolate for 14-days from when your symptoms began)

What contact tracers would ask you

Close contact definition:

• face-to-face contact

with someone (less than 1 metre away)

• spending more than 15

minutes within 2 metres

• f someone
• travelling in a car or
• ther small vehicle with

someone

• If you are asked to self-isolate your employer should support you
• If you have symptoms you are entitled to sick pay
• If you are isolating due to being a close contact your employer may ask you

to work from home, if this is not possible you are entitled to sick pay

• www.acas.org.uk/checking-sick-pay/statutory-sick-pay-ssp
• https://www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay/eligibility

Employee rights

• Provide contact details when visiting public places (café/bars/hairdressers…)
• Help to spread accurate information about Coronavirus and Test and Trace

locally & on social media

• Share WCC Social media posts #COVID19, #StayAlertToStaySafe
• More resources available at: coronavirusresources.phe.gov.uk/
• Support each other:
• Isolating through T&T: Help to get essential items for cases/contacts who

• Shielding: formal Government support for people to ‘shield’ ends at the end
• f July, many will feel ok to get back to usual activities, some will not and may

• Look out for each other – people’s mental health and wellbeing is being

• Report it if you have concerns: warwickshire.police.uk/tua/tell-us-

about/c19/tell-us-about-possible-breach-coronavirus-measures/

How you can help

Questions

• How and when do I get tested? - When do I get the results back?
• Can I go to my GP with COVID-19 symptoms?
• What are employers expected to do to reduce the risk of spreading

the virus in the workplace and to help Test & Trace?

• What happens if there's an outbreak in a workplace?
• What if I'm told to self-isolate for 2 weeks and have no food in the

house and no-one who can do my shopping for me?

• What do I do if I have concerns about my employer not supporting

me to self-isolate?

• Might we have a local lockdown like they have in Leicester?

Pre-submitted Questions