Increases in demand and changes to supply related to the Covid-19 pandemic will not only affect patients with the coronavirus, but will have large knock-on effects on the care provided to the wider population. In this briefing note researchers from IFS and Imperial College discuss likely implications for healthcare delivery in the short and medium term of the responses to the coronavirus pandemic, focusing primarily on the implications for non-coronavirus patients.The authors are Carol Propper, George Stoye and Ben Zaranko.
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