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Commentary: Priorities for research during the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic and beyond: a survey of nurses, midwives and health visitors in the United Kingdom

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been the greatest single health challenge of my working life. The total number of people infected in the United Kingdom (UK) is unknown as community testing was suspended for much of 2020, but over 4.5 million people have tested positive (DHSC 2021). There have been over 460,000 hospital admissions (DHSC 2021) and around 500,000 people in the UK reporting Long Covid symptoms that last for more than 6 months (ONS 2021). Nurses are at the forefront of meeting the challenges around this disease and should be equal partners in setting the emergent research and policy agendas. Early research efforts assumed that Covid19 would follow a known trajectory of previous respiratory infections and yet we have come to learn over the past year that it is a multisystem disease in both the acute and chronic phases. The enduring symptoms can leave people unable to work, to undertake activities of daily living independently and to care for dependents (NIHR CED 2021). Enduring symptoms may be tipping people with frailty into care dependency, with profound implications for health and social care services making this a major public health issue. This paper describes a cross sectional survey of 1296 nurses and midwives, undertaken at an early stage of the pandemic (May 2020). The self-selected sample of predominantly female, registered nurses of white British ethnicity, located in England and working for acute care providers will likely reflect nurses’ experiences of caring for hospitalised patients in the first wave in the UK. However, given the at least a tenfold difference in the number of people who contracted COVID-19 and stayed in the community and those