Many people are recording symptoms of COVID-19 using specially designed symptom tracker apps. These are helping to slow the outbreak, by recording which symptoms are most common, and identifying high risk areas in the UK. We have teamed up with the organisations running the COVID-19 symptom tracker, designed by Kings College London, to allow the […]

The linked data will greatly enrich the information available to researchers for understanding the lifetime risk factors for COVID-19 and its symptoms. In the future it will enable the long-term health and other outcomes of those experiencing COVID-19 and its symptoms to be understood.

The information from the COVID tracker app is held in anonymised form by the SAIL Databank, at the University of Swansea. The personally identifying information from the COVID tracker app is held separately by SAIL’s Trusted Third Party, the NHS Wales Information Centre (NWIS). In order to link your survey data, we will transfer your […]

The de-identified linked data will be transferred back to the Centre for Longitudinal Studies team at UCL running the NCDS study, who will also make the data available via appropriate conditions of access to researchers via secure mechanisms such as the UK Data Service and/or the SAIL databank.

When you completed the survey you could specify that you did not want us to link your COVID symptom tracker data to your survey data.

Yes, you can opt out at any time – you can call us for free on 0800 0355 761 or email us at ncds@ucl.ac.uk.

You can read more about how your data will be used, your rights and the steps the app maker take to ensure it’s protected in their Privacy Policy or in their Frequently Asked Questions.