Written evidence submitted by Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster and Dr Caitjan Gainty
Written evidence submitted by Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster, University of Roehampton, and Dr Caitjan Gainty, King’s College London. We are historians of healthcare with expertise in public health, the clinical workforce, and hospital management in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Britain. This written evidence articulates some of the critical findings of an ongoing study of healthcare in a pandemic, noting both well-known and new fault lines. It suggests the need to capitalize both on positive changes that have taken place in health and social care as a result of the pandemic as well as on the new visibility and transparency of health care concern and public buy-in so that momentum is not lost as services normalize.