Data story 25/03/2021
Each week we present analysis of data in chart form to illustrate some key issues and invite discussion. This week, Billy Palmer and John Appleby consider the financial cost of the pandemic by analysing the additional funding the government has spent or put aside for dealing with the pandemic, now a...
Blog post 24/03/2021Sarah Scobie
With a year having passed since the start of the first lockdown, Sarah Scobie answers some key questions on how mortality figures are collected and measured during the Covid-19 pandemic. This explainer was originally published last May, was updated again in October and in January, and has now been u...
Blog post 12/03/2021Nina HemmingsCamille Oung
Social care was conspicuous by its absence in last week’s Budget, despite the troubled sector being just weeks away from having vital financial support removed. With the issue of reform also evaded once more, Nina Hemmings and Camille Oung assess where things stand.
Data story 10/03/2021
Each week we present analysis of data in chart form to illustrate some key issues and invite discussion. Frontline health and social care staff were close to the front of the queue when the vaccination programme began at the end of last year, and a large percentage of staff have received a first dos...
Press release 03/03/2021Nuffield Trust
Nigel Edwards responds to the 2021 Budget delivered today.
Data story 26/02/2021
Each week we present analysis of data in chart form to illustrate some key issues and invite discussion. Developments in knowledge and treatments for Covid-19 has led to a perception in some quarters that most coronavirus patients in recent months would be spending a shorter time in hospital than wo...
Blog post 17/02/2021Sarah Scobie
Covid-19’s impact on care homes has been well documented. Nearly a year since the start of the pandemic, this explainer from Sarah Scobie looks in more detail at new data on the deaths of care home residents. The numbers have exposed the fragile state that the care sector was in before the pandemi...
Blog post 17/02/2021Natasha Curry
With Covid-19 having a particularly hard impact on care homes, Natasha Curry takes a closer look at why they were hit so badly last spring, whether they have fared any better this winter, and the importance of what happens next. Her blog accompanies an explainer from Sarah Scobie, which looks in det...
Blog post 16/02/2021Dr Charlotte Paddison
The role of unpaid carers has been more vital than ever during the pandemic, but there has been variation so far in how such carers have been identified ahead of the Covid-19 jab. With more details set to emerge on how carers will be identified and contacted for their vaccines, Charlotte Paddison ar...
Press release 16/02/2021Nuffield Trust
Sarah Scobie responds to the weekly mortality figures from the Office for National Statistics.