nCoV: Understanding the dynamics of policy development and healthcare worker behaviour in the UK during the Covid-19 public health emergency

在传染病爆发时，公共卫生决策者面临巨大的压力，特别是来自媒体的压力。他们必须迅速做出反应，并做出对医疗服务产生巨大影响的决定。我们正在研究新冠肺炎疫情期间的传统媒体和社交媒体趋势。我们将把这些与英国政策的变化联系起来，通过与关键政策参与者的合作获得独特的见解。这些专家包括为政府提供建议的战略咨询专家组（SAGE）成员和英国公共卫生领导人。这些专家正在记录重要会议和活动的信息，并定期接受采访，以便我们实时捕捉他们的观点。我们还将通过采访和观察来研究政策变化对普通诊所和医院的医护人员的影响。我们将了解他们对疫情期间提供护理的看法，以及他们如何看待政策的变化。这些发现会在疫情期间反馈给政策制定者，我们的方法很新颖，因为政策决策通常只在事件发生后才进行研究，这使得研究结果的可靠性较低。我们的团队拥有所有必要的专业知识，并已经开始工作，通过使用紧急储备资金。

In an infectious disease outbreak public health policymakers are under tremendouspressure, especially from the media. They must respond rapidly to and take decisionswhich impact enormously on healthcare provision.We are studying conventional and social media trends during the Covid-19 epidemic. Wewill link these to changes in UK policy, gaining unique insights through collaboration withkey policy players. These include members of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) that advises the Government, and Public Health England leaders.These expertsare recording information on key meetings and events, and giving regular interviews so wecapture their perspectives in real-time.We will also examine the impact of the policy changes on healthcare workers in generalpractice and hospitals, through interviews and observations. We will learn theirperspective on delivering care during the epidemic, and how they perceive the changes inpolicy. These findings will be fed back to policymakers during the outbreak.Our approach is novel because policy decisions are usually only studied after an event,making the findings less reliable. Our team have all the necessary expertise and havealready started the work, by using emergency reserve funding.