Table 3.

Country strategies to maintain or scale up the supply of health professionals

	Cyprus	Greece	Israel	Italy	Malta	Portugal	Spain
Reallocation of health professionals within the public sector	x	x	x	x	x		x
Extra hours, moving part-time to full-time, cancelling leave	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Recruitment of new staff (short-term, freelance or temporary contracts)	x	x	x	x		x	x
Recruitment of medical students and student nurses (accelerated end of training)	x		x	x	x		x
Recruitment of retired and previously inactive health professionals				x		x
Deploying private sector health professionals to the public sector	x	x		x	x
Use of military medical personnel		x	x	x			x
Volunteers (any background)	x	x		x	x

Source: Authors based on Covid-19 Health Systems Reform Monitor.