University of Leeds: against COVID-19 University
Project: Estimating delayed cancer diagnosis and impact on the NHS in England per week following lock-down due to COVID-19
Research Group: Cancer Group, Primary Care Unit
Project Description: Aims: To model accumulating demand for primary and secondary care diagnostic tests and 2WW pathways and consequences for stage at diagnosis, emergency admissions and deaths, in order to estimate NHS capacity and diagnostics requirements as the immediate impact of COVID-19 settles into routine care.
Collaborators: This is a collaboration between the Cancer Research UK-funded CanTest Collaborative and the NIHR Cancer Policy Research Unit, led by Fiona Walter (Cambridge) and Richard Neal (Leeds). Other collaborators include Greg Rubin (Newcastle), Yoryos Lyratzopoulos (UCL), Stephen Duffy (UCL), Willie Hamilton (Exeter) and the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS).
https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/covid-19-research-projects/