Government introduced a national service aiming to ensure that anyone with COVID-19 symptoms had access to a test and that close contacts of positive cases were advised to isolate.
Public Health England reviewed different factors affecting people’s COVID-19 risks and outcomes, concluding that existing health inequalities had been replicated and exacerbated by the pandemic.
The Office for National Statistics published the first measure of population health in England covering 2015 to 2018, incorporating the wider determinants of health.
The largest vaccination campaign in NHS history began as Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive a COVID-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial.
The change to the UK’s relationship with the EU had wide-ranging implications for health and social care in England, including on international recruitment and supply and regulation of medicines.
