PRIMIS has had the privilege of working on the FLU-CAT study for the last three years. The study is being carried out in partnership with Professor Calum Semple, Professor in Outbreak Medicine at the University of Liverpool, and has been funded under an NIHR Pandemic themed research call.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, PRIMIS was asked to work alongside the GP system suppliers to design and implement a data entry template to support primary care decision making. Consequently, the tools have been utilised hundreds of thousands of times across the UK, supporting health care professionals to make difficult decisions about who should be admitted to hospital and who can safely be allowed to stay at home.
The aim of the FLU-CAT study is the real time refinement and validation of criteria and tools used in primary care to aid hospital referral decisions for patients of all ages in the event of surge during a pandemic. Please visit the FLU-CATs webpage for more information:
FLU-CATs webpage
Given the Covid-19 pandemic, it was agreed that the tooling developed by PRIMIS for the FLU-CAT study was made available to all GP practices via their GP system suppliers.
This project involves the following PRIMIS services:
Applied Health Research Building University Park University of Nottingham Nottingham, NG7 2RD