Project aims
As of 23rd March 2020, the UK public health response to the Covid-19 pandemic include school closures and social distancing measures, strongly recommended for people over 70 year, those with an underlying health condition or who are pregnant. In addition, the NHS is expanding critical care capacity to the maximum, freeing up at least 30,000 of the 100,000 general and acute beds and acquiring a further 8,000 beds from within the private sector. This project aims to inform the UK public health and NHS response to this emergency by determining the spatio-temporal patterns in excess mortality and morbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Period and geography
2015-2020
England
Data
NHS Digital HES England
ONS live births and still births
ONS Mortality
PHE Cancer registrations
Contact
Publications
Davies B, Parkes B, Bennett J, Fecht D, Blangiardo M, Ezzati M, Elliott P. Community factors and excess mortality in first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in England. Nat Commun 12, 3755 (2021).