LibGuides: Coronavirus: Recovery planning

Useful links for ongoing updates

A selection of links that may help to keep up to date with developments relating COVID-19 pandemic recovery planning. For a more indepth list, please view the Pandemic/Disaster recovery toolkit (opposite)

Workforce psychological impacts

British Psychological Society
COVID Trauma Response Working Group
Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and Northumbria University - New research Study on the Wellbeing of Healthcare and Hospital Workers during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Currently in progress
NHS Employers
NHS People Guides
Point of Care Foundation
Practitioner Health Webinars
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Support the Workers

Pandemic / disaster recovery planning toolkit

BHT Disaster/Pandemic Recovery Toolkit v1.1 29/04/2020
Collated resources to support the recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Includes sections on recovery planning, capacity and long term impacts, workforce wellbeing, learning lessons, organisational resilience and innovation

Latest resources

Recent links not yet added to the main toolkit

NEW Delivering core NHS and care services during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond: Letter to the Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee - Kings Fund, Nuffield Trust., The Health Foundation 14 May 2020
NEW NHS England - Operating framework for urgent and planned services within hospitals - 14 May 2020
After the pandemic- the challenge that lies ahead RCP blog post 30 April 2020
Centre for Mental Health - Trauma, mental health and coronavirus: supporting healing and recovery
Health Foundation- COVID19 Five dimensions of impact
Health Foundation - Will COVID-19 be a watershed moment for health inequalities?
HSJ -Using COVID recovery to transform the NHS
NHS People - The recovery phase
Recorded webinar on caring for people in the recovery phase - includes lessons learnt from the British Army and the Manchester Bombing
NHS Reset: a new direction for health and care 29 Sept 2020
Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine - What can history teach us about crisis leadership?
Recovering after COVID19 - a practical guide for clinicians and commissioners - 30 Apr 2020
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges - Reset, restore and recovery
What do you want to keep from this time? Lessons for the NHS – don’t let the ‘old world bite back* - Becky Malby London South Bank University
Highlights from survey of NHS staff on learning from COVID-19 experience
Manchester Briefings - Health and Social Care - The challenge of system recovery
Covid-19 recovery and resilience: what can health and care learn from other disasters?- King's Fund 4 February 2021

Specialty specific recovery plans

Last updated 03/06/2020

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges - Principles for reintroducing healthcare services COVID-19 21 May 2020
ACBGI - Considerations on resumption of elective COVID-19 surgery 28 Apr 2020
Association of Anaesthetists -Returning to new normal working May 2020
Association of British Neurologists - Guidance on recommencing neurology services 21 May 2020
Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists and British Fertility Society - Best practice guidance for reintroduction of routine fertility treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic 6 May 2020
British Association of Dermatologists - COVID 19
British Orthopaedic Association - Changes to orthopaedic services during COVID-19 1 May 2020
British Orthopaedic Association - Restarting non-urgent trauma and orthopaedic care 12 May 2020
British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery - UK Clubfoot Consensus Guidance Recovery of clubfoot services during the Covid -19 pandemic Starting Ponseti treatment on older babies - Phase 2 and beyond - May 20
British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy RE-ESCALATION OF BMT ACTIVITY FOLLOWING COVID19 PANDEMIC UK AND IRELAND PAEDIATRIC BMT GROUP POLICY STATEMENT - 19 May 2020
British Society of Gastroenterology - BSG podcast and guidance on recommending endoscopy in the deceleration and early recovery phases of COVID-19 pandemic 27 May 2020
British Society of Gastroenterology - Guidance on recommencing GI endoscopy in the deceleration and early recovery phases of the COVID-19 pandemic 30 Apr 20
British Society of Gastroenterology Service Recovery Documents: the What, When and How
British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology Joint guidance on performing CT colonography in the early recovery phase of the Covid-19 pandemic - 13 May 2020
ENT UK - A graduated return to elective ENT within the COVID pandemic 20 May 2020
ENT UK - A graduated return to paediatric elective ENT within COVID-19 pandemic - 26 May 2020
ENT UK - Exiting the pandemic resuming ENT services - 29 April 20
Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Intensive Care Society, Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists- Restarting planned surgery in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic 01 May 2020
Royal College of Emergency Medicine - COVID 19- resetting emergency care
Royal College of Ophthamologists - Reopening and redeveloping ophthalmology services during Covid recovery – Interim guidance 29 Apr 2020
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Reset, Restore, Recover - RCPCH principles for recovery - 19 May 2020
Royal College of Surgeons Recovery of surgical services during and after COVID-19- 26 May 20