The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated pre-existing problems in the long-term care sector.
Read more “The COVID-19 pandemic and long-term care: what can we learn from the first wave about how to protect care homes?”
The COVID-19 pandemic saw a rapid rise in the use of remote consultations by telephone and video link.
Read more “Keeping what works: remote consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals face the concurrent challenges of maintaining routine services while attending to COVID-19 patients.
Read more “Restarting more routine hospital activities during COVID-19: approaches from six countries”
The COVID-19 pandemic has put health systems and their ability to deliver health care services under strain.
Read more “Managing health systems on a seesaw: balancing the delivery of essential health services whilst responding to COVID-19”
Health workers have been at the forefront of treating and caring for patients with COVID-19.
Read more “How are countries supporting their health workers during COVID-19?”
Finding ways to increase the surge capacity and flexibility of the health workforce has been fundamental to delivering an effective COVID-19 response.
Read more “What strategies are countries using to expand health workforce surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic?”
Surveillance and monitoring systems are central to governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article focuses on assessing differences in mortality recording across countries and over time, to inform country comparisons.
Read more “How comparable is COVID-19 mortality across countries?”
Contact tracing is an essential tool to support the transition back to normal life during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article explores how 31 countries operate contact tracing, using data extracted from the COVID-19 Health Systems Response Monitor (HSRM).
Read more “Effective contact tracing and the role of apps: lessons from Europe”
In order to ease lockdown restrictions and prevent a second wave of infections, countries must be able to find, test, trace, isolate and support new COVID-19 cases.
Read more “Successful find-test-trace-isolate-support systems: how to win at snakes and ladders”
Responses to COVID-19 within schools have varied significantly across the European Region.
Read more “What strategies and approaches are countries implementing within schools both in response to COVID-19 and to localized outbreaks?”