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...
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COVID-19 impact inquiry
This UK-wide inquiry will consider the relationship between the pandemic and people's health and...
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Adult social care and COVID-19
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound impact on people receiving social care, their...
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NHS Test and Trace performance tracker
Our latest analysis on the performance of NHS Test and Trace (up to 31 March 2021).
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COVID-19 policy tracker 2020
A timeline of the national policy and health system responses to COVID-19 in England in 2020.
Blogs and long reads
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Gender divide: a post-COVID recovery must address pandemic inequalities
Mehrunisha Suleman outlines the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on women, and what must be done...
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What might long COVID mean for the nation’s health?
The COVID-19 impact inquiry team summarise emerging evidence on the effects of long COVID for...
Newsletter blog
Rescue to recovery: why we must keep looking ahead
‘In the middle of a global pandemic it has sometimes felt strange to be thinking long term’,...
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1 year on since lockdown began – our lives have changed but what lessons have we learned?
Jo Bibby takes stock of the past year of the pandemic, reflecting on how our recovery must draw on...
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What might COVID-19 mean for England’s nurse supply?
What are the long-term challenges for nurse retention and recruitment following the pandemic? Nihar...
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Emerging evidence on health inequalities and COVID-19: March 2021
The COVID-19 impact inquiry team look at emerging evidence of the pandemic's impact on women and key...
Data analysis
One year on: Three myths about COVID-19 that the data proved wrong
Three charts measuring 'years of life lost' that disprove three ‘myths’ that were prevalent at the...
Long read
Securing a positive health care technology legacy from COVID-19
About 21 mins to read
During the pandemic, the NHS has rolled out technologies at impressive speed. But what will need...
Long read
How can policymakers plan better for the long term?
About 15 mins to read
COVID-19 has illustrated why policymakers must prepare better for uncertainty. This long read...
Long read
Anchors in a storm
About 20 mins to read
COVID-19 has galvanised many institutions, including the NHS, into more purposefully influencing...
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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How has hospital use among those clinically extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 been impacted by the pandemic?
Using secondary care data linked to the shielded patient list, this analysis explores the pandemic's...
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What next for the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme?
The UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme has made an impressive start, with around 30% of the...
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Who was advised to shield from COVID-19?
This analysis from the Networked Data Lab explores demographic variation in people advised to shield...
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Huge variation in the proportion of over 80s who have had the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine
New data published by NHS England and Improvement shows huge variation in the proportion of over 80s...
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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...
Press releases
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1.5 million potential years of life lost to COVID-19 in the UK, with each life cut short by 10 years on average
New analysis from the Health Foundation reveals the ‘devastating’ scale of loss in the pandemic,...
Press release
Poll reveals positive experience of NHS tech during COVID, but public not yet sold on future use
New Health Foundation research highlights the need for technology implemented during the pandemic to...
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The government must translate praise for NHS staff into practical support and investment to help them recover
Health Foundation response to the NHS Staff Survey 2020 and NHS England’s monthly performance...
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Research reveals scale of reduction in hospital treatment for care home residents and warns of backlog of pent-up demand for NHS care
The amount of hospital care received by those living in care homes in England rapidly declined in...
Press release
At the start of the pandemic, NHS earnings had fallen in real terms by over £600 per employee over the last decade
Health Foundation response to the government's evidence to the NHS review body of a proposed 1% pay...
Press release
A budget for rescue but not recovery
Universal credit uplift and furlough extension welcome but public services underpinning recovery...
Letters and consultation responses
Consultation response
COVID-19: Test, track and trace
Our evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s inquiry on COVID-19: Test, track and...
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...
Programmes, partnerships and funding
Newsletter feature
Health Foundation funding and opportunities in 2021
Our annual sneak preview of some of the key opportunities to get involved in our grant and research...
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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