Co-theme Lead Professor Adam Todd of “Safer management of polypharmacy in multiple long-term conditions” and Professor Clare Bambra of “Safer Management of Multiple Long-Term Conditions in Disadvantaged Communities” co-authored a recent article in the BMJ Open “Ecological study of the association between the English national vaccination programme and area deprivation inequalities in COVID-19 mortality“

The paper concludes that inequalties in COVID-19 mortality rates could be significantly reduced by the National COVID-19 vaccination strategies. However barries to vaccination uptake in the most deprived areas need to be overcome if more is to be acheived.