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.
Featured content
Collection
Surviving COVID
Surviving COVID is a Channel 4 documentary, and series of short films, supported by the Health...
Research report
Unequal pandemic, fairer recovery
A comprehensive review of the factors that affected the UK’s devastating COVID-19 death toll.
Collection
COVID-19 impact inquiry
This UK-wide inquiry explored the relationship between the pandemic and people's health and health...
Collection
Adult social care and COVID-19
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound impact on people receiving social care, their...
Chart
NHS Test and Trace performance tracker
Our analysis on the performance of NHS Test and Trace from 1 October 2020 to 5 May 2021.
Chart
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
Blog
An investment in people is an investment in health
The COVID-19 impact inquiry shows the extent of the pandemic’s unequal repercussions, writes Jo...
Blog
Mind the gaps: adult social care workforce policy during the pandemic
Has national support for adult social care staff in England during the pandemic been adequate?...
Blog
What have we learned from a year of NHS Test and Trace?
What’s next for NHS Test and Trace? The Health Foundation’s policy team reflect on a year of...
Blog
How are generation COVID-19 experiencing the pandemic?
The COVID-19 impact inquiry team round up emerging evidence of how the pandemic has affected young...
Newsletter blog
Weathering the storm? The pandemic’s impact on young people’s wellbeing
Martina Kane looks how the pandemic has affected young people’s mental health, and what society can...
Blog
Insuring against insecurity – how the pandemic has shown the need for social security reform
Many people who experienced severe financial strain during the pandemic were not eligible to claim...
Data analysis
Comparing G7 countries: are excess deaths an objective measure of pandemic performance?
As leaders of the G7 gather this week, the REAL Centre team reflect on the fairest way to compare...
Long read
Unemployment and mental health
About 18 mins to read
Analysis from our healthy lives team shows it’s vital for policymakers to act upstream in tackling...
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...
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
Chart
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted primary care?
Three charts exploring regional trends in the number of primary care appointments, trends in the...
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Use of primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: May 2021 update
There have been dramatic shifts in primary care activities and outcomes in response to the COVID-19...
Chart
Longer waits, missing patients and catching up
Six charts looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consultant-led elective care.
Chart
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...
Chart
Who was advised to shield from COVID-19?
This analysis from the Networked Data Lab explores demographic variation in people advised to shield...
Chart
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...
Press releases
Press release
Busiest month on record for A&E
Health Foundation response to the publication of NHS England's monthly performance statistics...
Press release
Inquiry finds working age adults in poorest areas almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19
The Health Foundation calls on Government to learn the lessons from the financial crisis and invest...
Press release
Health Foundation calls for investment and innovation as waiting list hits 5m for first time ever
Health Foundation response to the publication of NHS England's monthly performance statistics...
Press release
Continuing to deepen understanding of long COVID and its unequal impact is crucial to protect the nation’s health
COVID-19 impact inquiry response to latest ONS data on long COVID.
Press release
Government must address how racial discrimination and economic disadvantage have disproportionately impacted ethnic minority communities
Health Foundation response to the latest ONS data on ethnicity and COVID-19.
Press release
Further indication that young people have been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic's economic fallout
Jo Bibby, Director of Health, responds to ONS statistics on young people and employment.
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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