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COVID-19 responses in countries with social health insurance: The role of primary care
Tuesday 01 December 2020 from 12:00-13:00 CET
In social health insurance countries, the response of primary care to the COVID-19 pandemic has
received much less attention than hospitals and their struggle to provide sufficient intensive care beds.
However, primary care doctors and nurses, have played a central role in addressing the pandemic by diverting
patients away from inpatient care and caring for milder cases in the community. Primary care doctors and nurses
have worked hard to maintain essential services during the first and second wave of infections by developing
remote consultation capacity. What new services were introduced? What flexibility and regulatory support was
necessary to adapt to the crisis? What can be learned and retained for future crisis and the development
of primary care? Join us in this webinar to learn more about the role of primary care and what lessons
we can learn for strengthening health system resilience.
Speakers
Andrea E. Schmidt, Austrian Public Health Institute
Francois Schellevis, NIVEL, the Netherlands
Pia Vracko, NIJZ, Slovenia
Facilitators
Ewout van Ginneken & Erica Richardson (European Observatory on Health
Systems and Policies)
This webinar is part of a series of webinars which draws lessons from
country experiences based on the
COVID-19
Health System Response Monitor (HSRM). The HSRM has been delivered
by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies as a joint
undertaking with and for the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the
European Commission.
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