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

我们将开发一个全国性的个人证词和对新冠肺炎的深入思考的收藏，并将其保存在大英图书馆，作为一个永久的公共资源，为政策和实践提供信息。这是建立在NHS@70项目的基础设施之上的，该项目一直在英国的四个国家开展工作，自2017年以来收集了患者，工作人员，政策制定者和公众关于健康经验以及NHS在日常生活和工作中的地位的证词。NHS@70已经培训了150多名口述历史方法的志愿采访者，并收集了1000多份录音。Covid-19工作将提供额外900场口述历史采访，捕捉不同地区、年龄、种族、性别和阶层的经历和反思。这将为理解新型冠状病毒肺炎的社会意义提供证据基础。我们将与卫生和志愿部门的利益攸关方合作，并使用共同制作方法，确定快速数据分析的优先主题，并开发资源，将学习纳入政策和实践。通过NHS@70开发收集将增加独特的价值，使围绕健康和NHS的经验，实践和政策的转变能够在Covid-19之前，期间和之后的规定时间段内进行询问。将新冠肺炎纳入英国更长的卫生史，将使人们对其影响和遗产有更丰富的理解。这使这个项目有别于其他试图从个人证词中建立理解的项目。重要的是，这项新的研究是在NHS@70项目的基础上进行的，这意味着如果成功，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.