Parental perspectives on emergency health service use during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study

Matthew Breckons; Sophie Thorne; Rebecca Walsh; Sunil Bhopal; Stephen Owens; Judith Rankin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0285375

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Parental perspectives on emergency health service use during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study

Matthew Breckons ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Matthew.Breckons@newcastle.ac.uk

Affiliations Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North East & North Cumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3057-6767

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Sophie Thorne,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Rebecca Walsh,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Sunil Bhopal,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North East & North Cumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Stephen Owens,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Judith Rankin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North East & North Cumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
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Parental perspectives on emergency health service use during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study

Matthew Breckons,
Sophie Thorne,
Rebecca Walsh,
Sunil Bhopal,
Stephen Owens,
Judith Rankin

Published: May 31, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285375

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