National COVID-19 Research
Health and Care Systems
Frugal innovation responses to the COVID19 crisis
Review of frugal innovations that have emerged in response to COVID-19.
Rapid review on trends from London (and Scottish) trusts on whether non-COVID admissions have increased as the outbreak has developed
Report undertaken by Dr Theresa Redaniel, Dr Jelena Savović, Prof Bell & Prof Alex Bottle
Inequalities
Informatics and Digital Health
How we deliver the healthcare for the 1.5M people in the UK the government has classed as vulnerable
Working with NIHR to develop a standard data set for Covid-19 patients
Data sharing across BRC's, AHSC's, NHS Trusts nationally.
Maternity, Children and Young People
Routine Routine vaccinations in pregnant women and children and COVID
Examine COVID impact on health service use. Data via: CPRD, WSIC, RCGP RSC
European Partnership
Comparison of national COVID containment measures on children’s health.
Prevention
Review of the evidence for smoking and COVID outcomes
With interest from Cancer Research UK in the findings, we're looking at reviewing the outcomes of smoking for COVID-19 patients.
Workforce
Enhancement of the new COVID CHW workforce in the community
Based on Community Health Workers (CWH) research conducted in Brazil, discussing with Directors at Health Education England how to enhance the training of 500,000 volunteers to go beyond shopping to: active COVID19 casefinding, referrals to General Practice and Acute services, and to explore how this could be acredited.
National CHW workforce for COVID19 response
Comment article reviewing evidence base for scaled CHW workforce in LMICs and potential application in the UK.
Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education
Perspective article reviewing the impact of COVID-19 on higher education institutions and the opportunities to innovate post-grad clinical education and research.
