In this month’s report, we explore some of the learning about good practice in infection prevention and control, and share some of the good examples we have encountered in understanding how providers have worked together to tackle COVID-19.

We want these insight reports to help everyone involved in health and social care to work together to learn from the pandemic. This includes:

• sharing and reflecting on what has gone well
• understanding and learning from the experience of what hasn't
• helping health and care systems prepare better for the future

Infection prevention and control

In this section, we look at good practice in infection prevention and control in three key settings:

• Acute hospital trusts
• Care homes
• GP surgeries

Section 1: Infection prevention and control

Provider collaboration reviews

In this section, we introduce:

• The work we have carried out to understand provider collaboration
• Some early headlines from the work
• Examples of good things we’ve encountered through the work

Section 2: Provider collaboration reviews

Our data

In this issue, we update our regular data including:

• outbreaks and staff absences in homecare services
• numbers of deaths of people detained under the Mental Health Act

Section 3: Our data