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The COVID-19 pandemic was a major public health challenge for island communities. A peer support group was set up across British Islands, led by Directors of Public Health and supported by NosPHN. It used an action research approach to identify and share learning to inform aspects of the management of COVID-19 that were unique to island communities. Topics included:
Covid-19 Surveillance
Shielding
Covid-19 Outbreak Management
Covid-19 Vaccination Implementation
Covid-19 Testing Pathways including community testing,
Contact Tracing
Tourism and economic balance
Participants :
- NHS Western Isles: Maggie Watts, DPH; Christina Morrison, HPN
- NHS Grampian: Susan Webb, DPH
- NHS Highland: Tim Allison, DPH; Jenny Wares, CPHM Health Protection
- NHS Orkney: Louise Wilson, DPH; Rebecca Welfare, Health Protection Nurse Specialist; Sara Lewis CPH
- NHS Shetland: Susan Laidlaw, DPH
- NHS Ayrshire and Arran: Allan Penman, Resilience Officer, Public Health; Tristan Hamade, Clinical Lead for the TTIS (Arran)
- Isle of Wight: Simon Bryant, DPH; Robert Pears, Interim Associate Director Hampshire & Isle of Wight
- Cornwall and Isles of Scilly: Rachel Wigglesworth, DPH Cornwall Council; Aisling Khan, Director of Adult Social Services for the Council of the Isles of Scilly; Ruth Goldstein, Health Protection Lead for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly; Abigail Wrigley Testing Lead in Incident Response team Council of the Isles of Scilly; Faye Colcoff, Cornwall Council
- Guernsey, Alderney and Sark: Nicola Brink, Director of Public Health
- Jersey: Dr Ivan Muscat, CCDC / Deputy MOH, Cynthia Folarin, Interim Director of Public Health
- Isle of Man: Henrietta Ewart, Director of Public Health; Jacqui Dunn, Head of Health Protection
- NoSPHN: Pip Farman, Consultant in Public Health and Nicola Macleod
Agendas and Notes from the meeting series are available on request from kim.penman@nhs.scot