This surveillance programme involved combining information on the teaching workforce with information on COVID-19 cases and the effects of COVID-19 on health. We have worked with the General Teaching Council Scotland to establish this work.

This work has allowed us to compare the risk of COVID-19 - including the risk of hospitalisation, admission to intensive care, and death - between teachers and the general public.

As part of the enhanced surveillance the risk of COVID-19 among teachers in Scotland and hospital admission with COVID-19 among teachers compared with healthcare workers and other adults of working age in Scotland, March 2020 to July 2021 population based case-control study.

View the preliminary results from December 2020

View the summary of the full results for March 2020 to July 2021

View the full published results (external website)

Last updated: 11 September 2023
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