COVID
Welcome to our collection of resources aimed to assist with healthcare improvement during COVID. Have a suggestion for a new resource or want to share some feedback? Let us know here.
Highlighted resources

COVID-19: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Skills to Deploy During the Surge
Staines A, Amalberti R, Berwick DM, Braithwaite J, Lachman P, Vincent CA.
The authors suggest a five-step strategy and actions for patient safety and quality improvement staff to employ their skills to support patients, clinical staff, and health care organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Management of post-acute COVID-19 in primary care
Practice advice, a podcast and infographic from Trisha Greenhalgh et al on what is know and best practice advice on managing long-COVID.

Quality Improvement Tool Exercises using COVID-19 Examples
This resource is a compilation of materials from a student-led improvement science curriculum adapted to be delivered virtually during COVID-19 to first-year medical students in a longitudinal preclinical program.
Highlighted Patient Safety Videos
In these unprecedented times, healthcare professionals across the country have had to adapt quickly to new ways of working in a new way. To help you adjust, we’ve prepared a short video from GP and executive coach Claire Kaye, who gives you her top tips in how to cope with change.
Join Dr Fiona Godlee of The BMJ and Professor George Davey Smith of Bristol University and the MRC, plus their invited guests from leading institutions in the US, UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden, India, Hong Kong, Gabon and New Zealand, as they discuss many aspects of the covid pandemic.
Blog posts
Healthcare improvement in the time of COVID
Joy Furnival asks what role can and should QI take during and after the COVID-19 pandemic?
Michael Marmot: Post covid-19, we must build back fairer
A fair distribution of health and wellbeing have to be at the heart of building back fairer, say Michael Marmot and colleagues
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- Covid-19 Vaccine in Children and Pregnancy with Dr. Sonja A. Rasmussen
- Diet quality and risk and severity of COVID-19: a prospective cohort study
- Covid in south Asia - India and Nepal
- Cigarettes and COVID-19: clearing the smoke
- Cigarettes and COVID-19: clearing the smoke
- Talk Evidence - testing for respiratory tract infections, cannabis for pain, & covid outcomes
- Medicine’s Disability Blind Spot: Vaccine Roll-out, Privilege, and Access
- Medicine’s Disability Blind Spot: Vaccine Roll-out, Privilege, and Access
- Immunogenicity of anti-SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in patients with rheumatic diseases
- Immunogenicity of anti-SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in patients with rheumatic diseases
- COVID-19: Vaccine immunogenicity, interleukin-6 inhibitors, mucormycosis

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