Learning from the Community Response to Covid-19: how the NHS can support communities

By: The Health Creation Alliance

Through interviews with people with lived experience, community representatives and healthcare professionals, Neil McGregor-Paterson’s paper explores how the community responded during Covid-19, identifying the attributes, enabling attitudes of organised communities, solutions to barriers and recommendations on how the NHS can work better with communities.

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