Table 1. Stakeholders engaging with the Wales COVID-19 Evidence Centre.
Welsh Government (WG) and Senedd (Welsh Parliament) |
TAC and TAG. TAG subgroups include the All-Wales Modelling Forum, Policy Modelling, Research and Development, Socioeconomic Harms, International Intelligence, Virology and Testing, Children and Young People, Risk Communication and Behavioural Insights, Environmental Science. (Membership of TAC/TAG included Welsh Government, Public Health Wales, NHS Wales and academia; experts from public health, health protection, medicine, epidemiology, modelling, technology, data science, statistics, environment, microbiology, molecular biology, immunology, genomics, risk communication and behavioural insights, physical sciences, research). |
Other WG teams: Long COVID Task Force, Equality and Human Rights Division, Homelessness prevention, Education (including Early Childhood Education and Care and Early Years Workforce, Childcare, Play and Early Years Division, Education and Public Services Group), Rural affairs team/Rural development division, Cost of Living Expert Group, Energy and climate change group, Planned Care Improvement and Recovery, Knowledge and Analytical Services, and the Health and Social Services group more generally. |
Senedd (Welsh Parliament) Health and Social Care Select Committee, and Senedd Cross-party Group on Long-COVID. |
Social Care Wales |
Social Care Wales’s Improvement and Development team |
Association of Directors of Social Services (Wales) |
National Health Service (NHS) and other organisations aligned to health |
Vaccine equity committee (Welsh Government and Public Health Wales) |
Public Health Wales Virology reference laboratory |
Public Health Wales Vaccine Preventable Disease Programme team |
Wales Health Board Medical Directors |
All Wales Medicines Strategy Group |
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Wales, Royal College of Surgeons, Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Podiatrists |
Wales Cancer Network |
National Health Service (NHS) leads in Wales including for primary care and cancer |
General Medical Council-UK |
Welsh Ambulance Trust |
NHS Wales Shared Services partnership (Engineering team), and Infection control |
Health Education and Improvement Wales, Deans of Medical Education (Wales) |
UK Health Security Agency |
NHS Wales: Directors of planning and finance, Diagnostics Board |
Members of the public and representative groups from under-served communities in Wales |
Service Users for Primary and Emergency Care Research Group |
WCEC Public Partnership Group (8 members) |
Members of the public attending WCEC public symposium (included workshops to identify research priorities). |
Young people (from THE Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHER) ALPHA group (a research advisory group of young people aged 14 to 25 in Wales) |
Disability Wales |
Ethnic minority and Youth Support Team (EYST) Wales |
Housing association (Taff Housing) |