Implications for health system reform, workforce recovery and rebuilding in the context of the Great Recession and COVID-19: a case study of workforce trends in Ireland 2008-2021.
Padraic FlemingSteve ThomasDes WilliamsJack KennedySara BurkePublished in: Human resources for health (2022)
This paper clearly demonstrates the prioritisation of staff recruitment within acute services-increasing needed capacity, without the same commitment to support government policy to shift care into primary and community settings. Concerted action including the permanent redistribution of personnel is required to ensure progressive and sustainable responses are learned from recent shocks.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
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- affordable care act
- coronavirus disease
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- health insurance
- respiratory failure
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- aortic dissection
- quality improvement
- hepatitis b virus
- pain management
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