Citizens' Jury on QCovid: Report on the jury's conclusions and key findings

Ipsos Scotland was commissioned to conduct a Citizens' Jury exploring views on QCovid®. QCovid® is a risk model developed to identify people at the highest risk of death or a poor outcome should they catch Covid-19. This report documents the Citizens' Jury process and findings.


Footnotes

1. Data farms are physical buildings that house a collection of processors or server infrastructure in one central location. Some companies create their own data farms to gather large amounts of data.

2. Full list of conditions is outlined by Public Health Scotland.

3. Full description of the QCovid® is available at QCovid® risk calculator.

4. Sortition Foundation.

5. Scots consider the use of health data in fight against covid.

6. Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020.

7. Deliberative Engagement Best Practice Guide.

8. Data farms are physical buildings that house a collection of processors or server infrastructure in one central location. Some companies create their own data farms to gather large amounts of data.

9. Inverse care law.

10. Scots consider the use of health data in fight against covid.

11. A minimum selection was set on each response on the data attitudinal measure to ensure that each response was represented by at least 2 jury members. The full question wording in the sign-up survey was as follows: How comfortable or uncomfortable would you be about the Scottish Government having access to your personal health data?

12. Google Jamboard.

Contact

Email: shielding@gov.scot

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