KEY POINTS• The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has profoundly reduced the capacity of health systems to provide scheduled services such as elective surgery and other nonemergency procedures.• The combination of single-entry models and team-based care is an efficient, fair and ethical approach to addressing the pent-up demand for surgery in the presence of constrained resources.• Even beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, single-entry models and team-based care are effective strategies to reduce wait times, enhance the patient experience of care and improve surgeons' professional work environments.

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The question how different electoral systems affect the represention of voters in parliaments has been a thorny issue for a considerable time. While some research suggests that first-past-the-posts systems should lead to a closer correspondence between the preferences of the electoral district's median voter and of its representative, other work concludes that in proportional representation systems, especially with open lists, candidates have an incentive to cultivate a strong personal vote.To study this question we take advantage of two peculiarities of the Swiss political system, namely that in the same chamber of the parliament some members are elected in PR-and some in plurality elections and that direct democratic instruments play an important role. The second element, given that for a series of votes in parliament voters have to decide on the same issue, allows us to estimate the policy positions of MPs and the median voter of each electoral district in the same policy space. We find that MPs elected in plurality elections are on average closer to their respective median voter. In PR districts, MPs are much more widely spread around the median voters' preferences.