Hospitals and Healthcare

A shortage of healthcare workers poses an existential threat to public health systems the world over and Covid-19 is making the situation even more critical.

Even before the onset of Covid-19 universal healthcare services all over the world were facing an uncertain future because of critical imbalances between the demand and supply of essential frontline healthcare workers. Although the global pandemic has exacerbated the situation, structural problems such as a lack of long-term workforce planning, poor retention, the international mobility of health workers and retirement from an ageing workforce all pre-date it.

Professor Carol Hodgson knows first-hand the challenges facing frontline health workers, researchers and guideline developers in the time of COVID. A few months into 2020, she was already working on international guidelines for the management of COVID-19 patients in acute settings with fellow physios and other clinicians from around the world. By May, in her […]