NHIR Quality and Outcomes of Person-centred Care Policy Research Unit (QORU): against COVID-19 ^Hub

The Quality and Outcomes of Person-centred Care Policy Research Unit (QORU) is a collaboration involving researchers in health and social care from the Universities of Kent, Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and has been funded by the Department of Health in England (from January 2011 for seven years) to support current government policy in health and social care on achieving outcomes.

Project: Geographical variation in COVID-19 mortality and its relationship to social care provision in England

The project was funded through the NIHR 'Policy Research Programme's rapid COVID-19' funding process and is supported from existing funding to Policy Research Units where projects have been adapted to address COVID-19. This research funding is part of NIHR and the Department of Health and Social Care's wider response to funding COVID-19 research.