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Respiratory virology dashboards for primary care and public health insight in England

  • Cecilia Rago1
  • Pushpa Kumarapeli2
  • Harshana Liyanage3
  • José M. Ordóñez-Mena4
  • Uy Hoang5
  • Gavin Jamie
  • Jessica Smylie
  • Timea Suli
  • Katja Hoschler
  • Anika Singanayagam
  • Beatrix Kele
  • Praveen SebastianPillai
2 more authors
  • Maria Zambon
  • Simon de Lusignan
5 affiliations
  1. 1Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  2. 2School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Kingston University London, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
  3. 3Regions Data Science, Data and Surveillance Services Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom
  4. 4Respiratory Virus Unit (RVU), UK Health Security Agency, Colindale, United Kingdom
  5. 5Royal College of General Practitioners, London, United Kingdom
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Abstract

Background: Effective community surveillance of respiratory diseases relies on the timely collection and analysis of high quality clinical and virology data. The aim was to develop interactive dashboards for general practice, public health, and researcher groups. This would improve the visualisation, utilisation, and quality of virology data from an English sentinel network, support disease trend monitoring, early outbreak response, and thereby reduce poor health outcomes and their societal impact. Methods: The study was conducted in the Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) sentinel network sponsored by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). A collaborative user-centred design (UCD) approach was used to identify three use cases for general practices, national public health collaborators, and researchers in the internal team. Reference laboratory virology data, and electronic primary care health records were processed, cleaned, linked, and aggregated in a secure Trusted Research Environment (TRE). Dashboards were developed using Microsoft Power BI (Business Intelligence). The effectiveness, usability, and user satisfaction of the dashboards were not formally evaluated. Results: Interactive dashboards were co-designed to present spatiotemporal trends of circulating respiratory viruses in the community, in near real-time, with weekly updates on a Wednesday until the previous week ending on Sunday. The dashboard allowed primary care users to filter data to their own results, and it presented key metrics such as virus positivity rates, with benchmarked targets for team incentives. The dashboard also supported public health planning, and research and surveillance activities of the internal RSC team. Conclusion: The user-centred dashboards created a data feedback loop. Future work requires formal evaluation of usage metrics, user impact and satisfaction, data quality, and the quality of virology samples.

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@article{rago2026respiratory,
  title = {{Respiratory virology dashboards for primary care and public health insight in England}},
  author = {Cecilia Rago and Pushpa Kumarapeli and Harshana Liyanage and José M. Ordóñez-Mena and Uy Hoang and Gavin Jamie and Jessica Smylie and Timea Suli and Katja Hoschler and Anika Singanayagam and Beatrix Kele and Praveen SebastianPillai and Maria Zambon and Simon de Lusignan},
  journal = {PLOS One},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0357287},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0357287},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Respiratory virology dashboards for primary care and public health insight in England
AU  - Cecilia Rago
AU  - Pushpa Kumarapeli
AU  - Harshana Liyanage
AU  - José M. Ordóñez-Mena
AU  - Uy Hoang
AU  - Gavin Jamie
AU  - Jessica Smylie
AU  - Timea Suli
AU  - Katja Hoschler
AU  - Anika Singanayagam
AU  - Beatrix Kele
AU  - Praveen SebastianPillai
AU  - Maria Zambon
AU  - Simon de Lusignan
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/16
JO  - PLOS One
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pone.0357287
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0357287
AB  - Background: Effective community surveillance of respiratory diseases relies on the timely collection and analysis of high quality clinical and virology data. The aim was to develop interactive dashboards for general practice, public health, and researcher groups. This would improve the visualisation, utilisation, and quality of virology data from an English sentinel network, support disease trend monitoring, early outbreak response, and thereby reduce poor health outcomes and their societal impact. Methods: The study was conducted in the Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) sentinel network sponsored by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). A collaborative user-centred design (UCD) approach was used to identify three use cases for general practices, national public health collaborators, and researchers in the internal team. Reference laboratory virology data, and electronic primary care health records were processed, cleaned, linked, and aggregated in a secure Trusted Research Environment (TRE). Dashboards were developed using Microsoft Power BI (Business Intelligence). The effectiveness, usability, and user satisfaction of the dashboards were not formally evaluated. Results: Interactive dashboards were co-designed to present spatiotemporal trends of circulating respiratory viruses in the community, in near real-time, with weekly updates on a Wednesday until the previous week ending on Sunday. The dashboard allowed primary care users to filter data to their own results, and it presented key metrics such as virus positivity rates, with benchmarked targets for team incentives. The dashboard also supported public health planning, and research and surveillance activities of the internal RSC team. Conclusion: The user-centred dashboards created a data feedback loop. Future work requires formal evaluation of usage metrics, user impact and satisfaction, data quality, and the quality of virology samples.
SN  - 1932-6203
ER  -