Productivity in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic
Productivity Puzzles Season 1, Episode 3 was released on Wednesday, 9 June 2021
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the performance and productivity of the UK’s healthcare sector? In this episode, host Professor Bart van Ark talks to Professor Diane Coyle and Kaya M. Dreesbeimdiek from the University of Cambridge who co-authored a recent paper on productivity in the National Health Service during the Covid-19 pandemic, with insight from Dr. Jennifer Dixon, chief executive of The Health Foundation. They discuss how we measure health productivity, what has happened to health productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic and ask how we rebuild a resilient health care sector to enable higher productivity in an uncertain environment.
They discuss how we measure health productivity. What has happened to health productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic? How do we rebuild a resilient health care sector to enable higher productivity in an uncertain environment?
Find out more:
- Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app
- Read the working paper Productivity in UK healthcare during and after the Covid-19 pandemic by Professor Diane Coyle, Kaya M. Dreesbeimdiek and Annabel Manley.
- Download a transcript of the recording
