A Crisis of Governance – Or an Opportunity?

The National Health Service Track and Trace Programme has been one of the most pivotal and controversial tools the UK government has deployed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This article reviews the challenges of the development and implementation of the NHS COVID-19 mobile application, and reviews...

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Autores principales: Areal, Andreia G., Sheppy, Bruce
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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A Pandemic-Led Worldwide Change in Health Service Delivery-Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8299892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34366672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786329211033845
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description The National Health Service Track and Trace Programme has been one of the most pivotal and controversial tools the UK government has deployed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This article reviews the challenges of the development and implementation of the NHS COVID-19 mobile application, and reviews these in the context of the following 3 key areas: outsourcing of public sector, organisational structure and leadership, digital framework and governance. The paper argues that the current pandemic has demonstrated weaknesses in each of the above-mentioned areas, and that is an urgent need to strategically address these in order to prepare for the next public health crisis.
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spelling pubmed-82998922021-08-06 A Crisis of Governance – Or an Opportunity? Areal, Andreia G. Sheppy, Bruce Health Serv Insights A Pandemic-Led Worldwide Change in Health Service Delivery-Commentary The National Health Service Track and Trace Programme has been one of the most pivotal and controversial tools the UK government has deployed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This article reviews the challenges of the development and implementation of the NHS COVID-19 mobile application, and reviews these in the context of the following 3 key areas: outsourcing of public sector, organisational structure and leadership, digital framework and governance. The paper argues that the current pandemic has demonstrated weaknesses in each of the above-mentioned areas, and that is an urgent need to strategically address these in order to prepare for the next public health crisis. SAGE Publications 2021-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8299892/ /pubmed/34366672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786329211033845 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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