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The health workforce and COVID-19: Protecting health workers while
maintaining surge capacity
Tuesday 17 November 2020 from 12:00-13:00 CET
Countries are again being confronted with a surge in COVID-19 infections
and hospitalizations. Scaling up health workforce capacity for COVID-19
patients is therefore of utmost importance. Increasing workloads, rapid
redeployment and emotional distress, however, may affect the mental health
of workers and the ability of health systems to handle the pandemic.
Measures to ensure adequate staffing levels and to support the wellbeing of
the health workforce are therefore crucial for there to be an effective
crisis response. What can be learned from the first pandemic wave when
health systems protected health workers while maintaining surge capacity?
Join us in this webinar to learn more about the experience in different
countries and what lessons we might learn.
Speakers
Gemma Williams, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Juliane Winkelmann, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Sandra Buttigieg, University of Malta, Malta
Suzanne Wood, Health Foundation, UK
Gabrielle Jacob, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Facilitators
Matthias Wismar & 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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