NHS Voices of Covid-19: Creating a national collection to document and understand the impact and legacy of a pandemic through personal testimonies

我们将在全国范围内收集有关Covid-19的个人证词和深入思考，并将其保存在大英图书馆，作为为政策和实践提供信息的永久公共资源。这建立在NHS@70项目的基础设施之上，该项目自2017年以来一直在英国四个国家开展工作，收集患者、工作人员、政策制定者和公众关于健康经历和NHS在日常生活和工作中的地位的证词。NHS@70在口述历史方法论方面培训了150多名志愿采访者，并收集了1000多份录音。Covid-19工作将提供额外的900次口述历史访谈，记录不同地区、年龄、种族、性别和阶级的经历和反思。这将建立一个证据基础，使人们了解Covid-19的社会意义。我们将与卫生和志愿部门的利益攸关方合作，并采用共同生产方法，确定快速数据分析的优先主题，并开发资源，将学习成果纳入政策和实践。通过NHS@70开发收集将增加独特的价值，使人们能够在Covid-19之前、期间和之后的特定时间段内对卫生和NHS方面的经验、做法和政策的变化进行审查。将Covid-19纳入英国更悠久的卫生历史将使人们对其影响和遗产有更丰富的理解。这使这个项目与其他试图从个人见证中创造理解的项目区别开来。重要的是，在NHS@70项目之外建立这项新研究意味着，如果成功，我们将立即开始工作。

We will develop a national collection of personal testimonies and in-depth reflections around Covid-19 that will be preserved at the British Library as a permanent public resource for informing policy and practice. This builds on the infrastructure of the NHS@70 project which has been working across the four nations of the UK, gathering testimony from patients, staff, policymakers and the public since 2017 about experiences of health and the place of the NHS in everyday life and work - nhs70.org.uk. NHS@70 has trained over 150 volunteer interviewers in oral history methodologies and collected upwards of 1000 recordings. The Covid-19 work will deliver an additional 900 oral history interview sessions capturing experiences and reflections across region, age, race, gender and class. This will create an evidence-base that produces understandings of the social significance of Covid-19. Working with stakeholders across health and the voluntary sector and using co-production methods, we will identify priority themes for rapid data analysis and develop resources to feed learning into policy and practice. Developing the collection through NHS@70 will add unique value by enabling shifts in experiences, practices and policies around health and the NHS to be interrogated through defined time periods of before, during and after Covid-19. Embedding Covid-19 in the longer history of UK health will produce richer understandings of its impacts and legacy. This distinguishes this project from others that seek to create understandings from personal testimony. Importantly, building this new study out of the NHS@70 project means that if successful, we will start work immediately.