NHS COVID-19

At first look the app is very easy to use, but it now seems to be too easy. If you click on report symptoms button, it only takes you to book an actual test, but should there not be a place where you can also report if you have taken a test and been confirmed as positive? The majority of people taking the test most likely won’t go through this app to do it so seems like a big waste not to be able to input your test. Also agree with someone else’s comment that it seems really stupid and lacking in that it’s not changing the area if you are somewhere else in UK. What is the point of me knowing that Canning Town is a low risk area if I’m spending a week in Bath?

Let’s be positive about this people, it’s designed to get us as close to normality as we can. On first viewings and having read the info, it seems really good. If it works as stated then this really will be a super tool in the fight against COVID. Before downloading, I would be classed as the sort of person who isn’t comfortable in sharing data and often suspicious of how much the government know of me. However, if we are to return to a more normal way of living then this is needed, at least until a vaccine is found. Enough of the negativity, fingers crossed it works as stated, and let’s get behind this. Download it, listen to what it advises, not instructs, it’s there to save lives and support our NHS.

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It’s great that it tells you the risk level in your area (based on your own postcode). BUT that’s it... it’d be great to show you risk levels in the areas you actually go to and in real time, so you know where to avoid. You can’t even change or input a different postcode or location. I mean I could just google ‘areas at risk’ and get more information. That’s something that can really benefit for users of this app. Or if it could utilise the location services on your phone to scan the area you’re in. Simple but effective tools such as these are what’s missing to make good use of it. Otherwise it’s useless and a waste of developers time

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Edit - Apple has now released iOS 13.7 which further improves tracking and notification for those governments using the framework. Which is a lot of people other than us who now have far better tracking Because nhs decision makers are clueless and the companies they contracted to for tracking don’t know how to write an app. You focused on a UI redesign. You’ve translated the app to Urdu and whatever languages which ,however widely spoken you think they are, are nowhere near the priority when you haven’t even rolled this out to everyone in the six months since you’ve worked on it. You’re focusing on all of the things that don’t matter and haven’t provided an app that helps the public in any way. The people running this app development should be ashamed of the botched job they’ve done. Clearly the U.K. government should have partnered with Apple and google and we would have had a working app months ago instead of this beta, useless (but thankfully translated into x many languages which aren’t nationally recognised or widely used per capita kingdom Wide) pile of nothing currently released in the App Store. Absolutely shocking you’re being paid.

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Downloaded as was eligible due to being an NHS Volunteer the app is simple and informative ref living location and did change in risk level as and when it did in the government reporting so that was accurate but I have been unable to scan ANY QR codes both in my living county and many other areas I have visited whilst I have had the app along with service stations etc... shame this function isn’t working as I see the app at this stage a little pointless Will it get an up date once the roll out happens??