All posts tagged "pandemic"

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  Lack of ‘female perspective’ in No.10 led to women’s deaths during Covid, says former top UK civil servant

  A lack of gender diversity among decisionmakers in the UK prime minister’s office meant that women were not adequately considered in pandemic-related policymaking, likely leading to preventable deaths, a former

  • Posted November 2, 2023
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  Good governance: how administrations can use data to enhance service experience, boost resiliency and improve public trust

  Now more than ever, governments need to be resilient in the face of uncertainty – whilst also working to win back public trust and satisfy demand for ever higher quality

  • Posted September 13, 2023
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  From digital ID to the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: how to deal with crises in government

  The most senior civil servant in Estonia has shared his reflections on how governments can deal with crises in an exclusive interview with Global Government Forum. In Global Government Forum’s

  • Posted September 7, 2023
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  Expect the unexpected: the lessons from COVID about public health and preparedness

  At the Global Government Summit in Singapore, civil service leaders from 16 countries met to explore five of the biggest challenges facing their countries. In the third session, they discussed

  • Posted August 1, 2023
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  Out of adversity comes opportunity: COVID-19 and the future of healthcare

  Healthcare authorities were right at the forefront of the COVID crisis. It was a torrid time, but with it came lessons that have the potential to change care provision for

  • Posted July 10, 2023
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  US veterans affairs employees report not feeling emotionally supported during COVID-19

  More than half (51%) of clinical staff at the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) did not feel emotionally supported during the COVID-19 pandemic, while only 40% were aware of the

  • Posted May 16, 2022
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  FDA union chief fires back at criticisms of remote-working UK civil servants

  The general secretary of the FDA union Dave Penman has hit back at Conservative party co-chairman Oliver Dowden for criticising civil servants who work from home. Dowden said earlier this

  • Posted October 6, 2021
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  Necessity is the mother of innovation: turning burning platforms into launchpads for reform

  In the face of the pandemic, civil servants have taken big risks to protect their populations – short-circuiting established processes to launch innovative services and transform working practices. At a

  • Posted September 20, 2021
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  Italy mandates vaccine passports for all workers

  Italy’s prime minister Mario Draghi has made vaccine passports mandatory for its 1.2 million government and local authority employees and all private sector workers. It is the first EU country

  • Posted September 16, 2021
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  Will the pandemic pave the way for welfare reform? The UK’s former homelessness tsar sets out her vision

  It was the devastation of the Second World War that gave birth to the UK’s welfare state, and now, argues Louise Casey, the covid-19 pandemic provides the government with a

  • Posted September 12, 2021
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