Dear colleagues,

COVID-19 has tremendous impact on health systems. The Health Financing team of the WHO would like to collect information and document how country policy makers have adjusted purchasing arrangements to respond to COVID-19. We ask for your help to collect more information on country practices via a short survey. Please open the following link.

https://extranet.who.int/dataformv3/index.php/937623?lang=en

The core objective of this short survey is to understand purchasing policy responses and to facilitate cross-country experience sharing. Your response will also help to draw lessons for the future. We will compile the information and share the experiences and insights with this community.

The survey consists of eight key questions on the core areas of strategic purchasing.

For more background and information on purchasing health services during a pandemic, please see our blog on “How to purchase health services during a pandemic? Purchasing priorities to support the COVID-19 response”.

PS: You can also register your contribution to this short survey on Collectivity to claim your credit as a Collectivity member.

Thank you so much in advance,

Our best wishes,

Inke Mathauer, Fahdi Dkhimi and Aurelie Klein

Health Financing Team, WHO