The path to more resilient healthcare systems
Healthcare systems are under significant strain, making it harder to maintain safe, high-quality care and putting pressure on the resilience needed to withstand disruption and sustain essential services.
The BD Healthcare Resilience Barometer, conducted annually by BD, measures the resilience and vulnerabilities of healthcare systems using internationally recognised indicators, helping healthcare leaders identify opportunities to build stronger, more resilient systems.
This year's edition of the BD Healthcare Resilience Barometer ranks the resilience of healthcare systems in 42 countries through the lenses of four core healthcare themes – patient safety, the healthcare workforce, environmental sustainability, and efficiency.
PATIENT SAFETY
HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
EFFICIENCY
Average scores – Healthcare Resilience Barometer 2026
How resilient is your healthcare system?
Understand your position – compare your healthcare system across four core themes of resilience.
Highlight potential vulnerabilities – identify relative strengths and weaknesses across patient safety, healthcare workforce, environmental sustainability and efficiency.
Inform your priorities – use data-backed insights to support planning and investment discussions.
What healthcare leaders are saying about resilience
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The BD Healthcare Resilience Barometer draws on perspectives from senior clinicians, hospital directors and policy leaders working across health systems. They highlight what is working on the ground and where risks are growing. These perspectives connect system-level data with the operational decisions you face every day.
“Our healthcare system is built on the human experience of empathy. That instinct to care for others is a huge part of why the sector can be resilient.”
Dr. Anders Ahlsson
Director of Health Care, Region
Stockholm
Sweden
“Sustainability is about doing things right and delivering brilliant healthcare. If you’re delivering brilliant healthcare but it’s not sustainable, it’s not brilliant. They go hand in hand.”
Alexandra Hammond
Associate Director,
Net Zero and Sustainable Procuremen
NHS England,
United Kingdom
“To make our healthcare systems future-proof we need to prepare internally, strengthening skills, processes, and readiness, to improve our resilience”
Prof. Dr. Dominique Vandijck
Full Professor of Health Economics
Ghent University
Belgium
About the BD Healthcare Resilience Barometer
BD partners with healthcare systems leaders and decision makers to support evidence-based improvements in patient safety, healthcare workforce resilience, efficiency in care delivery and environmental sustainability.
The BD Healthcare Resilience Barometer provides a consistent, comparable view of system resilience across healthcare systems, evaluating 42 countries across core themes: patient safety, healthcare workforce, efficiency, and environmental sustainability. The BD Healthcare Resilience Barometer supports healthcare leaders in strengthening performance under pressure.
Developed by BD (Becton, Dickinson, and Company) in collaboration with healthcare experts, the BD Healthcare Resilience Barometer uses internationally recognised indicators and a standardised 0-100 scoring methodology.
BD is a global medical technical company advancing the world of health. Learn more at bd.com.
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