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

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic represents an unprecedented challenge to health and care services, bringing intense pressure and radical change to systems, organisations and to all of us as individuals.
As a foundation with a mission to improve health and health care, we are supporting individuals and organisations across the health and social care system to deal with current challenges, but also building the evidence needed to understand longer term implications on the nation's health.
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Surviving COVID
Surviving COVID is a Channel 4 documentary, and series of short films, supported by the Health...
Report
Build Back Fairer: The COVID-19 Marmot Review
A new report by the Institute of Health Equity, commissioned by the Health Foundation as part of its...
Collection
COVID-19 impact inquiry
This UK-wide inquiry will consider the relationship between the pandemic and people's health and...
Chart
NHS Test and Trace performance tracker
Our latest analysis on the performance of NHS Test and Trace (up to 30 December).
Chart
COVID-19 policy tracker
A timeline to 7 December 2020 of national policy and health system responses to COVID-19 in England.
Video
Surviving COVID: Behind each statistic lies a human story
In this video, individuals and their families who have directly experienced the severe effects of...
Blogs and long reads
Newsletter blog
The two worlds of COVID-19
The pandemic has increasingly divided people into two worlds: those with direct experience of...
Blog
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...
Newsletter blog
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...
Blog
Building back better by focusing on health
Emma Spencelayh explores the critical role councils play in ensuring the economic recovery also...
Blog
‘Levelling up’ just got much harder
A look at the Health Foundation's COVID-19 impact inquiry: a UK-wide inquiry exploring the...
Blog
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...
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The COVID-19 vaccine: who gets it first?
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign hopefully marks the beginning of the end of the pandemic. But...
Long read
Spending Review 2020
About 22 mins to read
In the face of daunting costs from the COVID-19 pandemic, our long read looks at what a 1-year...
Long read
Elective care in England
About 14 mins to read
This long read looks at what we know so far about the pandemic’s impact on elective care in England.
Long read
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...
COVID-19 chart series
We'll be exploring five dimensions of impact as they unfold – from the health and care system through to people’s daily lives.
- Direct impact of COVID-19
- Impact on acute care
- Non-acute care including general practice
- The lockdown and social distancing
- NHS and social care capacity and resilience

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Non-COVID-19 NHS care during the pandemic
COVID-19 has disrupted hospital care for tens of thousands of patients. Our analysis covers activity...
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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...
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Deprivation and excess deaths
Our new analysis shows the size of the challenge for the government and broader public sector in...
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Managing uncertainty
Our REAL Centre analysis explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care spending,...
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Did hospital capacity affect mortality during the pandemic’s first wave?
Coming into the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK had high levels of bed occupancy in hospitals and very...
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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...
Press releases
Press release
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
Press release
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.
Press release
Over 160,000 people now waiting longer than a year for routine hospital treatment
Health Foundation response to NHS England’s monthly performance statistics.
Press release
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...
News
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...
Press release
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...
Letters and consultation responses
News
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...
Consultation response
Restarting NHS services after the COVID-19 outbreak
A joint submission from the Health Foundation, King's Fund and Nuffield Trust to the Health...
Press release
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...
Programmes, partnerships and funding
Programme
COVID-19 Research Programme
The Health Foundation has launched a new research programme, which seeks to understand the impact of...
Article
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...
Newsletter feature
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...
Partnership
NHS Reset: best practice and innovation
A partnership with the NHS Confederation and the AHSN Network exploring how to sustain and spread...
Project
Analytical collaboration for COVID-19
Working in collaboration with Nuffield Trust, The King’s Fund, the Strategy Unit and Imperial...
Research project
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,...
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