• Indirect acute effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical and mental health in the UK: a population-based study 

      Mansfield, Kathryn E; Mathur, Rohini; Tazare, John; Henderson, Alasdair D; Mulick, Amy R; Carreira, Helena; Matthews, Anthony A; Bidulka, Patrick; Gayle, Alicia; Forbes, Harriet; Cook, Sarah; Wong, Angel Y S; Strongman, Helen; Wing, Kevin; Warren-Gash, Charlotte; Cadogan, Sharon L; Smeeth, Liam; Hayes, Joseph F; Quint, Jennifer K; McKee, Martin; Langan, Sinéad M (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-18)
      Background There are concerns that the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK might have worsened physical and mental health, and reduced use of health services. However, the scale of the problem is unquantified, impeding development of effective mitigations. We aimed to ascertain what has happened to general practice contacts for acute physical and mental health outcomes during the ...
    • Mortality among Care Home Residents in England during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study of 4.3 million adults over the age of 65 

      Schultze, Anna; Nightingale, Emily; Evans, David; Hulme, William; Rosello, Alicia; Bates, Chris; Cockburn, Jonathan; MacKenna, Brian; Curtis, Helen J; Morton, Caroline E; Croker, Richard; Bacon, Seb; McDonald, Helen I; Rentsch, Christopher T; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Mathur, Rohini; Tomlinson, Laurie A; Williamson, Elizabeth J; Forbes, Harriet; Tazare, John; Grint, Daniel; Walker, Alex J; Inglesby, Peter; DeVito, Nicholas J; Mehrkar, Amir; Hickman, George; Davy, Simon; Ward, Tom; Fisher, Louis; Green, Amelia CA; Wing, Kevin; Wong, Angel YS; McManus, Robert; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Evans, Stephen JW; Douglas, Ian J; Smeeth, Liam; Eggo, Rosalind M; Goldacre, Ben; Leon, David A (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-10)
      Background Residents in care homes have been severely impacted by COVID-19. We describe trends in the mortality risk among residents of care homes compared to private homes. Methods On behalf of NHS England we used OpenSAFELY-TPP to calculate monthly age-standardised risks of death due to all causes and COVID-19 among adults aged >=65 years between 1/2/2019 and 31/03/2021. Care home residents ...