Journal
EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL-QUALITY OF CARE AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 201-203Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ehjqcco/qcaa036
Keywords
Healthcare delivery; Health economics; Cardiovascular medicine; Covid-19; Mortality
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- European Union
- British Heart Foundation
- Leducq Foundation
- Medical Research Council (UK)
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research
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Healthcare systems are faced with unique challenges during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. This viewpoint compares the response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK and in Germany. Despite being two large European countries of comparable size with good healthcare systems and similar patterns of exposure to Covid-19, Covid-19 related deaths in the UK currently far outnumber those in Germany. This has several reasons, but two explanations stick out: 1. lower long-term investment into healthcare in the UK rendered the NHS more vulnerable to Covid-19; 2. the existence of a well-governed decentralised and partially redundant organisation of healthcare increased resilience in Germany' s healthcare systems, enhancing the ability to adapt in response to unexpected challenges to healthcare. The response to the current pandemic also illustrates the power and the necessity to learn from each other through transparent communication of successes and mistakes.
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