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    Type of settings
    On-line
    Category of capacity building activity
    Seminar/Webinar
    PHIRI Activity
    No
    Activity schedule
    Fixed date(s)
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    Activity local date
    -
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    GEO coverage
    Europe
    Language
    English
    Available in other languages
    No
    Target audience
    Junior specialists;
    Experts;
    Decision-Makers

    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. This webinar focuses on understanding the new services that have been introduced, what flexibility and regulatory support has been required for crisis adaptation and what can be learned and retained for future crises and in the development of primary healthcare.

    Topics
    Health systems » Health system performance » Costs/expenditure » Financing scheme
    Free keywords
    primary health care
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    Leading organizer
    World Health Organisation Europe
    Partners
    European Commission;
    European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy
    Contact

    WHO Headquarters in Copenhagen
    (+45 45 33 70 00)

    Updated on 31 January 2023