<p></p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic stretched for the first time every modern
healthcare system globally. Hospitals were forced to cancel elective
operations, develop new work approaches, and redeploy staff to treat infected
patients, limit infection rates whilst maintaining most urgent operations.
Healthcare services are now in challenging but also potentially ground-breaking
position to re-think the way they operate. This webinar brought together
international hospital professionals and researchers to discuss, debate and
provide facts to explain the reasons for which hospital support services and
infrastructure are vulnerable and identify areas to enhance resilience.</p>
<p>This
unique webinar is one of series of free events sponsored by the Royal Academy
of Engineering to rethink healthcare resilience from a global perspective. The
webinar designed to represent the complexity of healthcare and provided
information for professionals, major emergency planners and policy makers. Five
(5) speakers from different backgrounds present their international experience,
knowledge and opinion about different aspects of healthcare resilience. They
discussed and answered questions of the general public who joined the webinar
in the 2 Q&A sessions and Panel Discussion. The webinar was held on 17 March
2022 and it involved experts and speakers from 4 countries, Italy, Turkey, UK
and USA.</p>
<p>To access the e-proceedings of Webinar 1, which looked at the
resilience of clinical services, please use this link: <a href="https://doi.org/10.25411/aru.c.5873864">https://doi.org/10.25411/aru.c.5873864</a>.</p><p></p>
Funding
Royal Academy of Engineering Frontiers Champion FC-2122-2-28