Governing health workforce responses during COVID-19. (Special Issue: COVID-19 health system governance.)

ABSTRACT

Countries in Europe have rapidly scaled-up, redeployed, repurposed, retrained and retained their workforce during COVID-19 to create surge capacity, protect the health and well-being of the workforce, and ensure effective implementation of vaccination programmes. Doing so has had enormous governance implications, including the need for intra-governmental and cross-organisational governance actions, increased transparency for planning, and delegated leadership to health employers and health workers. It is important that stakeholders continue to learn and share their experiences on the effectiveness of different workforce governance responses to allow the health workforce to recover, rebuild and repurpose.