The Lancet
Digital Health
February 18, 2021
Kathryn E Mansfield, Rohini Mathur, John Tazare, Alasdair D Henderson, Amy R Mulick, Helena Carreira, Anthony A Matthews, Patrick Bidulka, Alicia Gayle, Harriet Forbes, Sarah Cook, Angel Y S Wong, Helen Strongman, Kevin Wing, Charlotte Warren-Gash, Sharon L Cadogan, Liam Smeeth, Joseph F Hayes, Jennifer K Quint, Martin McKee, Sinéad M Langan
There are concerns that the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK might have worsened physical and mental health, and reduced use of health services. However, the scale of the problem is unquantified, impeding development of effective mitigations. We aimed to ascertain what has happened to general practice contacts for acute physical and mental health outcomes during the pandemic.
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