Healthcare Expert Warns Of Workforce Shortfall

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A shortfall of 18 million health workers by 2030 will have a devastating effect on the world's healthcare sector unless swift action is taken, an international think tank warned."Overcoming the health worker deficit and looming staffing crisis presents the single biggest challenge for healthcare during the next decade," said Mark Britnell, the global chairman for healthcare at KPMG, an auditing, tax and business advisory firm."The short-term fix of simply addressing headcount is too simple and short-sighted -seismic changes are needed across healthcare to avert this impending disaster," Britnell said while promoting the book, Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare. "If we go about this the right way, I believe we can grow the capacity to care by as much as 20% to meet the anticipated staff shortfall."Britnell suggested that reframing the productivity debate, reimag-ining clinical services, changing national investment strategies, empowering patients and harnessing the power of technology and artificial intelligence will help "avoid the inevitably bleak future we face if we carry on as we are."