Hospital care and COVID-19: Balancing surge capacity and regular services

Early in the pandemic, much emphasis was placed on scaling-up hospital capacity so the system could cope with a large number of infectious patients. As the epidemiological situation has changed, approaches to resuming hospital services in different countries have focused on the prioritization of different procedures and how to manage the separation of COVID-19 and routine patients. Such decisions have been made at the central or local level and different ways of consulting with the medical community have been employed. How have countries balanced surge capacity and regular services? Join us for this webinar to learn more about the experience so far with managing these competing demands on hospital care and what lessons we might learn.

Erin Webb, Technical University Berlin, Germany

Sarah Reed, Nuffield Trust, UK

Patrick Jeurissen, Radboud University Medical School, the Netherlands

Enrique Bernal Delgado, IACS, Spain

Melitta Jakab, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Ewout van Ginneken & Erica Richardson (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies)

Webinar Recording

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