Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare

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After this pandemic, when it finally ends, we will need global leaders in healthcare like never before. This is an adventurous, ambitious, and progressive programme which is designed to disrupt.

This review first discusses five prominent themes that Britnell highlights through the course of the book, with notable examples from his analyses of national health systems. It then moves on to a critical analysis of the structure and content knowledge, and finally concludes with a brief section on lessons learnt and implications of this work. The revelations come on the eve of an important speech by the prime minister on the future of the NHS, during which he is expected to try to allay widespread fears that the reforms proposed in health secretary Andrew Lansley's health and social care bill would lead to privatisation. In India, we're working with firms to help develop better primary care in urban and rural areas. In South Korea, we work with big teaching hospitals to develop their e-health capability and in the USA we help develop the new health insurance exchanges that are being established under Obamacare. In Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands and the UK, we're helping hospitals to reduce their costs and in Mexico to implement new health information systems. Mark Douglas Britnell (born 5 January 1966 [ citation needed]) is an English business executive. He is a senior partner at the professional services firm KPMG and a global healthcare expert. He was the chairman and senior partner for healthcare, government and infrastructure at KPMG International until September 2020. [1]In that one programme, all of healthcare could be seen. The skills you need to achieve such things are vast. On reflection, building this hospital required all of the skills you’d need to be a global health student at UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH).

I’m looking forward to lecturing and bringing my 33-year healthcare experience into the lecture theatre, virtual or real! I’m very proud of my part in building, what is still today, the single largest hospital development in NHS history; replacing two old hospitals with the brand-new Queen Elizabeth Hospital. I consider it a labour of love. He is one of the foremost global experts on healthcare systems and has a pioneering and inspiring global vision for health in both the developed and developing world. Mark has dedicated his entire professional life to healthcare and has led organisations at local, regional, national and global levels – provider and payer, public and private. Over the past 9 years, he has worked in 75 countries on circa. 300 occasions, gaining a unique first-hand experience. 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.

He was said to have expressed an interest in the post of NHS chief executive in 2006 (when David Nicholson was appointed) and to have applied again in 2013 (when Simon Stevens was instead the successful appointee). He also formally applied in 2021, when he (and Dido Harding) were both again unsuccessful, being beaten in the open competition for the role by Amanda Pritchard. [12] [13] Books [ edit ] Brevity is perhaps the most attractive feature of this book, yet its most significant limitation. Without further research into each country, one runs the risk of being ill-informed on the workings of these health systems, and the populations they serve. However, in his defense, Britnell opens with the claim that “each chapter can be read in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee. This is not an academic treatise…” (preface). The book is unquestionably informative, but readers must understand its purpose to be that of an introductory discourse, since it embodies Britnell’s own perspective thus presenting only selective information about the complexity of how they function. 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?