Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare

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Having previously been Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham and Director-General at the Department of Health, he joined KPMG as Global Chairman and Senior Partner for Health in 2009. Encourage governments to switch from under-supplying health workers to over-production, safe in the knowledge that the jobs are needed. There are various actions that can be taken and Scandinavian countries have made decent progress. 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. A global workforce crisis in healthcare is on the horizon. By 2030, the WHO estimates there will be a global shortage of approximately 18 million health workers – 20% of the workforce needed to keep healthcare systems going.

We are excited to announce that Professor Mark Britnell is joining UCL with more than three decades of experience as a global healthcare leader. 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. In a move that will pile more pressure on Lansley, the Department of Health last week released the latest Mori poll on satisfaction levels with the NHS. It shows that 66% of people questioned believed the NHS was the best health service in the world, while 37% of the public expected services to deteriorate following the reforms. However, nearly three-quarters said that they knew "not very much" or "nothing at all" about changes that the government plans to make.Dr Mark Britnell KPMG Global Chairman for Healthcare Dr Mark Britnell, cautions how healthcare is “on the brink of a global workforce crisis” – how prepared is the healthcare sector for these shortages? If the (UK's National Health Service) and other health systems want to retain people throughout their working lives," Britnell says, "they must support them through life events – parenthood, deaths, older age – and every stage of their career.”

Vize, Richard (11 June 2009). "Mark Britnell quits NHS for private sector". Health Service Journal . Retrieved 8 January 2010. Professor Britnell was most recently a vice chairman at KPMG UK and previous roles have included director general at the Department of Health, Member of the NHS Management Board, and member of the World Economic Forum Global Health Council. Alongside his position at GBSH, he will continue in his roles as adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and trustee of the Kings Fund. A typical week would involve a Sunday afternoon overnight flight from Heathrow followed by work on touch-down. I try to meet KPMG people on Mondays and get over any jet lag! For the rest of the week, I'll be travelling and meeting clients. I'll make presentations and meet ministers, officials and executives throughout the day. 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.

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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. If Pritchard does get the job, she will be the first female chief executive of the NHS since its creation in 1948. Stevens, who stands down this month, and his seven predecessors have all been men. Britnell, a former director of commissioning for the NHS, who is now head of health at the accountancy giant KPMG, was invited to join a group of senior health policy experts, described by the respected Health Service Journal as a "kitchen cabinet", in Downing Street earlier this month. The group, which includes former NHS executives and the former Department of Health permanent secretary Lord Crisp, was assembled by Cameron's new special adviser on health, Paul Bate.