Report predicts prolonged pandemic after-effects across society

The HSE body outlined how "healthcare workers have been identified as being at risk of ‘moral injury’ as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic".

The HSE has said some people, including healthcare workers, will need extra support over a longer 'post-emergency term and that it envisaged "prolonged after-effects" across much of society due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In a report entitled HSE Psychosocial Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Executive also outlined how "healthcare workers have been identified as being at risk of ‘moral injury’ as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic", defined as "the profound psychological distress which results from actions, or the lack of them, which violate one’s moral or ethical code, such as having to choose which patient to save as a priority".