Archive for August 2020

As lockdown restrictions ease and the NHS looks to restart routine care, community health services are preparing for the next phase of the pandemic with a clear will both to lock in those transformations which are working well, and to phase back in essential services where capacity is available. Andrew Ridley, chair of the Community…

Specialist midwife for IT at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Lorri Allport looks at how technology has helped support women through pregnancy, birth and post-natal care in rural Lincolnshire during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic leaves me and my fellow midwives with a dilemma. We need to support women through pregnancy. We need to…

COVID-19 has exposed holes in the government’s ability to plan for the future. Jennifer Dixon, the Chief Executive of the Health Foundation, explores what the national response to the pandemic tells us about the government’s capacity to prepare and highlights a pressing need for strategic long-term thinking. Plans are worthless but planning is everything, runs…

The Covid-19 pandemic is having a major impact on people’s mental health. Centre for Mental Health’s Andy Bell explores what we know so far from research and what to expect in the near future. The global Covid-19 pandemic is a health emergency unlike any we have known in living memory. But it is also a…

While men and Black and Asian people are significantly more likely to die of Covid-19, women are already bearing the brunt of the economic crisis. Jenna Norman, the Public Affairs Officer at the UK Women’s Budget Group, a network who analyse the impact of economic policy on women and men, explains why. Coronavirus is a…