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This report analyses the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining in addressing the challenges created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in the hospital sector. It also explores whether existing social dialogue and collective bargaining practices and processes in the sector were adapted or changed to address these challenges. The research comprises two parts. First, a literature review characterises and contextualises the structural features of the hospital sector at the time when the pandemic struck. This is followed by a qualitative analysis of information collected through the Network of Eurofound Correspondents.