Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare

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There’s a growing life science and genomics industry, where we’re thinking about precision medicine and what that means for individual care. Critics of this approach will say that training more staff than local systems can afford is foolish, however we know the world faced a future with a shortfall of 30 million health professionals before COVID-19. This number has increased materially as a result of the pandemic due to burn-out and increasing demand. The worst that can happen would be a domestic oversupply, increasing competition for roles, although that feels very unlikely. Director General for Commissioning & System Management at the Department of Health". The Kings Fund . Retrieved 8 January 2010. Following the success of Britnell’s award-winning debut book In Search of the Perfect Health System, which sold in 109 countries, Human shines a much-needed spotlight on a fundamental global issue, and is a must read for anybody who cares about the future of health around the world.

NHS leaders are keen to ensure that Stevens’s successor continues his habit of speaking out on policy matters, even if that discomforts ministers. The job specification for the chief executive’s post says that candidates should have “the ability to speak truth to power”. KPMG’s healthcare, government and infrastructure industry vertical works together with clients in infrastructure, government, healthcare and life sciences. The unit delivers deep sector expertise to help organisations cope with the various issues and disruption facing these industries – something especially important amid the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, and the economic crisis it has coincided with. In 2000, Mark was appointed Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham, where he masterminded the largest new hospital build in NHS history, established the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and developed one of the highest performing healthcare organisations in the UK.It has been suggested that Cameron may even announce an extension to the "pause" in the progress of the bill until after the party conference season, amid growing tensions on the issue within the coalition government. His first book In Search of the Perfect Health System was published by Palgrave Macmillian in 2016. The book has sold in over 109 countries, including translations into Mandarin, Korean and Portuguese, and was recognised by Chinese Medical Doctors Association as best health book in China, and won an award at the British Medical Association’s prestigious BMA Medical Book Awards. Labour sources said that the only explanation for the cuts in funding was that the government expected a hostile reaction to the reforms that do proceed and ministers were "planning how best to keep that from view". As you can imagine, it required a whole galaxy of skills and experiences. No one person or team could bring everything we needed, so the degree of teamwork between our clinical colleagues and the constructors and architects, the financing between our financiers and the NHS, and the political skills you needed to keep local MPs, and health ministers, and treasury ministers and officials on on-side, required a lot of effort.

As I said, all of life and death is in healthcare, and all industries flow into and out of healthcare. We’d expect everyone on this course to make an active contribution to society, develop themselves professionally, and stretch themselves personally as well. As a member of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Health Sector for the World Economic Forum, how important is teaching management skills to students for the future of the health sector and what impact could this have? Your profile mentions you masterminded the largest new hospital build in NHS history. Can you tell me more about this and how important business or management skills were in the success of this?

The health service has the richest most complicated supply chains in the world. We’d also expect some to become logistic experts. As you can see around the world, infrastructure still needs to be built and developed, so there are opportunities there in construction and architecture. Allow health professionals to practise at the upper limits of their licence (not to be confused with working at the top of your capacity). Buurtzorg in the Netherlands allows nurses to extend their roles producing productivity gains of nearly 30%. In unguarded comments at a conference in New York organised by the private equity company Apax, Britnell claimed that the next two years in the UK would provide a "big opportunity" for the for-profit sector, and that the NHS would ultimately end up as a financier of care similar to an insurance company rather than a provider of hospitals and staff. From a provider’s perspective, a common three-step process can be found behind many of the world’s most efficient hospital systems. Whether it is India’s ultra-lean chains such as Narayana and Apollo, or world-leading centres of excellence like Geisinger in the US, a common thread shows how high-quality, low-cost care can be achieved.