Executive summary intro
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on all aspects of everyone’s lives. The direct impacts have been the number of infections, hospitalisations and mortality during the pandemic. In addition, there have also been significant indirect impacts, such as increased demand to the NHS and social care sectors, and the measures put in place to control the virus have impacted on education, household income, job security and social contact.
Overall, inequalities already in existence across North Tyneside have worsened during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and, in cases where inequalities overlap, the effect has been more pronounced. The evidence in this report suggests that residents living in the borough who are least able to deal with the impact of the pandemic have been hit the hardest.
The key impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health and socio-economic inequalities within North Tyneside are varied and can be summarised under the four themes as shown