Representativeness, Vaccination Uptake, and COVID-19 Clinical Outcomes 2020-2021 in the UK Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Network: Cohort Profile Summary.
Meredith LestonWilliam H ElsonConall H WatsonAnissa LakhaniCarole AspdenClare R BankheadRay BorrowElizabeth ButtonRachel ByfordAlex J ElliotXuejuan FanUy HoangEzra LinleyJack MacartneyBrian David NicholsonCecilia OkusiMary E RamsayGillian E SmithSue SmithMark ThomasDaniel TodkillRuby S M TsangWilliam VictorAlice J WilliamsJohn WilliamsMaria ZambonGary HowsamGayatri AmirthalingamJamie Lopez BernalFrederick David Richard HobbsSimon de LusignanPublished in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2022)
The RSC is broadly representative of the national population; its PCSC is geographically representative and its SSGPs are newly supporting UKHSA syndromic surveillance efforts. The network captures vaccine coverage and has expanded from reporting primary care attendances to providing data on onward hospital outcomes and deaths. The challenge remains to increase virological and serological sampling to monitor the effectiveness and waning of all vaccines available in a timely manner.