What can Health Services Learn from COVID-19?

Contributor(s): Alistair McGuire | COVID-19 has tested many countries’ health systems beyond their limits. Health services were overwhelmed by COVID patients and populations also faced barriers trying to get care and diagnoses for other conditions. We could – and should – have been better prepared for this crisis. Professor Alistair McGuire talks about what a new LSE venture with the World Economic Forum and AstraZeneca, the Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR) seeks to do. He discusses the need for sustainable and resilient health systems, and what the partnership’s findings mean for the future of health services. Meet our speaker Alistair McGuire is Head of Department and Chair of Health Economics in the Department of Health Policy (@LSEHealthPolicy) at LSE. Prior to this he was Professor of Economics at City University, London after being a tutor in Economics at the University of Oxford. He has acted as an advisor to governments and governmental bodies in the UK and internationally, as well as pharmaceutical and health care insurance companies. Further reading: Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR) What can health services learn from the COVID-19 catatastrophe? A new platform for sharing insights. This film is part of the 'Festival Shorts' series, 10-minute talks by LSE experts released during Festival week Keywords: Shaping the Post-COVID World, health, healthcare, health services, health policy, future of healthcare.