Impact on mental health care and on mental health service users of the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods survey of UK mental health care staff

Johnson, Sonia; Dalton-Locke, Christian; Vera San Juan, Norha; Foye, Una; Oram, Sian; Papamichail, Alexandra; Landau, Sabine; Rowan Olive, Rachel; Jeynes, Tamar; Shah, Prisha; Sheridan Rains, Luke; Lloyd-Evans, Brynmor; Carr, Sarah; Killaspy, Helen; Gillard, Steve; Simpson, Alan; The COVID-19 Mental Health Policy Research Unit Group; Bell, Andy; Bentivegna, Francesca; Botham, Joseph; Edbrooke-Childs, Julian; Goldsmith, Lucy; Grünwald, Lisa; Harju-Seppänen, Jasmine; Hatch, Stephani; Henderson, Claire; Howard, Louise; Lane, Rebecca; Ledden, Sarah; Leverton, Monica; Lomani, Jo; Lyons, Natasha; McCrone, Paul; Ntephe, Chukwuma U.; Ocloo, Josephine Enyonam; Osborn, David; Pilling, Steve; Poursanidou, Konstantina; Scott, Hannah Rachel; Steare, Thomas; Stuart, Ruth; Tomlin, André; Turner, Kati; Tzouvara, Vasiliki

doi:10.1007/s00127-020-01927-4

Impact on mental health care and on mental health service users of the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods survey of UK mental health care staff

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has potential to disrupt and burden the mental health care system, and to magnify inequalities experienced by mental health service users. Methods We investigated staff reports regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in its early weeks on mental health care and…