Fife to lead coronavirus pilot project

Fife Health and Social Care Partnership was chosen by Health Protection Scotland and the Scottish Government to run the pilot programme.

It will monitor the spread of infection through the Scottish population – and the data will be used for scientific modelling, political decision-making and social interventions to help maintain the functions of the NHS.

The poilot will run across the next few months.

Dr Helen Hellewell, Fife Health and Social Care Partnership associate medical director, said: "We are delighted to have been asked to run the first pilot project in Scotland.

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"The information we gather will allow us to continually review and plan our Covid response as we progress though the coronavirus outbreak.

"In Fife we have successfully established a Covid-19 community triage hub in Glenrothes and an assessment centre at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.

"They have been running for four weeks and the new monitoring process will look at the number of people who have mild or moderate symptoms of the Covid-19 infection.

"It is important work that will help us eventually overcome the pandemic in Scotland."

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