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cord-305906-a2srympy	Haines, Andy	National UK programme of community health workers for COVID-19 response	2020-03-24		.txt	text/plain	2013	108	50	We propose a largescale emergency programme to train community health workers (CHWs) to support people in their homes, initially the most vulnerable but with potential to provide a longterm model of care in the UK. Experience from Brazil, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and other nations shows how a coordinated community workforce can provide effective health and social care support at scale. CHWs could undertake regular review of vulnerable people at home in person or virtually, depending on need, and when patients become ill CHWs could undertake simple assessment of the need for more advanced care, reporting to other members of the primary care team, including to the COVID19 Health Management Team that is being commissioned. CHWs in Brazil have been established for many years, are well integrated into their communities, and provide a wide range of health and social care support activities to each of the 100-150 households that they are responsible for.	./cache/cord-305906-a2srympy.txt	./txt/cord-305906-a2srympy.txt