Maybe Covid-19 is our wake-up call?
Ding-a-ling! Good MORNING, and welcome to another unprecedented challenging day! Soothing landscape because we need soothed right now. No kidding - the pandemic has been tough, and unbearably tragic for many thousands of people, whether as patients, family members, healthcare workers, other key workers, or your general Joe Public. One issue that has been recognised from fairly early on is that a key consideration has to be protecting our healthcare infrastructure from the tsunami that is still washing over us. Part of that means we need contingency plans to keep things moving if other systems go down. Our resources are stretched to the limit, and finding the money to pay for some of our dearest dream projects is going to be hard. We're going to have to cut our cloth. At the same time, the sheer need to innovate in models of patient care (because there are plenty of patients who don't have Covid-19 too, but have significant clinical needs - cancer, heart disease, kidn...
