Responding to COVID-19 How the Health Foundation is supporting the UK's health and care system to deal with current challenges and building the evidence needed to understand longer-term implications on the nation's health

NHS Test and Trace performance tracker

Our latest analysis on the performance of NHS Test and Trace (up to 30 December).

COVID-19 policy tracker

A timeline to 7 December 2020 of national policy and health system responses to COVID-19 in England.

Surviving COVID: Behind each statistic lies a human story

In this video, individuals and their families who have directly experienced the severe effects of...

The two worlds of COVID-19

The pandemic has increasingly divided people into two worlds: those with direct experience of...

How can we share data across sectors to help shape our recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic?

The chief executive of NPC describes their innovative work creating a COVID-19 data dashboard, to...

Using research to prepare for a post-pandemic world

How the long-term research agenda needs to incorporate important questions about COVID-19 and the...

Building back better by focusing on health

Emma Spencelayh explores the critical role councils play in ensuring the economic recovery also...

‘Levelling up’ just got much harder

A look at the Health Foundation's COVID-19 impact inquiry: a UK-wide inquiry exploring the...

Emerging evidence on COVID-19’s impact on money and resources

Frank Soodeen from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation explores the impact of the pandemic on household...

Inequalities in health care for people with depression and/or anxiety

About 12 mins to read

People with depression and/or anxiety are more likely to have additional long-term conditions if...

Non-COVID-19 NHS care during the pandemic

COVID-19 has disrupted hospital care for tens of thousands of patients. Our analysis covers activity...

Understanding the needs of those most clinically vulnerable to COVID-19

This analysis from the Networked Data Lab examines the evidence about those asked to shield during...

Deprivation and excess deaths

Our new analysis shows the size of the challenge for the government and broader public sector in...

Managing uncertainty

Our REAL Centre analysis explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care spending,...

Use of primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic

There have been dramatic shifts in primary care activities and outcomes in response to the COVID-19...

Government must put health at heart of nation’s pandemic recovery

The Health Foundation responds to the launch of Build Back Fairer: The COVID-19 Marmot Review

NAO voices reservations about NHS test and trace system

Health Foundation response to the National Audit Office's report on the NHS Test and Trace system.

Over 160,000 people now waiting longer than a year for routine hospital treatment

Health Foundation response to NHS England’s monthly performance statistics.

Tracing positive COVID-19 cases and their contacts less successful in more deprived areas, new analysis reveals

New Health Foundation analysis reveals that tracing positive COVID-19 cases and their contacts is...

Surviving COVID documentary airs on Channel 4

When the first surge of the virus hit the UK in March 2020, the Health Foundation decided to...

New analysis reveals daunting scale of financial challenge facing health and care post-COVID

The Health Foundation's analysis reveals the scale of funding increases needed to meet the demands...

Dismantling PHE in the midst of a pandemic carries serious risks

In a letter to the Sunday Telegraph, the Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust and The King's Fund say...

Restarting NHS services after the COVID-19 outbreak

A joint submission from the Health Foundation, King's Fund and Nuffield Trust to the Health...

Restarting health and care services will take many months, leading charities warn

The Health Foundation, The King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust identify five immediate challenges that...

Emergency COVID-19 funding from the Health Foundation

In March 2020, the Health Foundation made a rapid assessment of what we could best do to help in...

Impact of the Health Foundation’s emergency COVID-19 funding

In March, the Health Foundation made a rapid assessment of what we could best do to help in response...

NHS Reset: best practice and innovation

A partnership with the NHS Confederation and the AHSN Network exploring how to sustain and spread...

Analytical collaboration for COVID-19

Working in collaboration with Nuffield Trust, The King’s Fund, the Strategy Unit and Imperial...

Narrative accounts of primary care practitioners in a time of COVID-19

A research collaboration between the University of Birmingham and the University of Aberdeen,...