The Royal College of General Practitioners’ Research and Surveillance Centre plays a key role in the UK’s disease surveillance and pandemic preparedness. Dominic Dunn explains how the role has developed in recent years and its plans for future growth and to involve more laboratories.
On 27 November, 2023, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) published a news release titled UKHSA detects human case of influenza A(H1N2)v. It was the first detection of this strain of influenza in a human in the UK and was detected as part of routine national influenza surveillance undertaken by UKHSA and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
The national primary care influenza surveillance of influenza and other infections mentioned is conducted by a network called the RCGP Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC). The RSC is a collaboration between the University of Oxford, RCGP, and UKHSA.
Research and Surveillance Centre
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