WHO and Health Education England (HEE) are working in collaboration internationally, to develop the next generation of Human Resources for Health (HRH) system leaders. The desire is to create a lasting impact in strengthening health systems in partner countries. In support of the International Year of Health and Care Workers, the WHO and HEE are hosting a series of four open access seminars focusing on the importance of health workforce strengthening. Open to all, these explore the powerful impact that effective workforce planning can have on health systems throughout the world. The first of four seminars took place on the 13th December 2021. It brought together international leaders in the field of workforce planning and enabled attendees to understand the importance of systemic workforce planning, as well as its contribution to the development of strengthening of health care systems.
Seminar Two - ‘State of Shock': the role of workforce planning in responding to shocks in demand for health and care - will explore in greater depth the key issues raised in Seminar One, specifically the development of health systems and the challenge of responding to both short-term ‘shocks’ and longer-term trends. System shocks can cause radical and sudden mismatches between the demand for health and care and the workforce required to deliver it. Covid-19 and its impact on rapidly increasing demand in the last couple of years and its likely knock-on effects will be a key feature of this seminar.
Register to participate on 29 March 2022 | 13:00 - 15:00 CEST
Panelists
Chair- Lord Nigel Crisp, Member of the UK House of Lords & Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health.
Lord Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords in the UK and works and writes mainly
on global health. He was Chief Executive of the English NHS and Permanent Secretary of the UK Department of Health, from 2000 to 2006. He had previously been Chief Executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, one of the UK’s leading academic
centres, and Regional Director for the NHS in London. His earlier career was in industry and charities.
Dr Yaseen Arabi – Chairman of the Intensive Care Department, Medical Director, Respiratory Services and Professor, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research
Center, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Dr Arabi is currently the Chairman of the Intensive Care Department, the Medical Director, Respiratory Services and Professor, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center. He is
currently the principal investigator/co-investigator on several multicenter randomized controlled trials. He has been involved in MERS and COVID-19 research. He is a Section Editor for Intensive Care Medicine on the Editorial Boards of several journals.
Professor Jim Buchan – Senior Visiting Fellow, Health Foundation, Adjunct Prof at the WHO Collaborating Centre at UTS in Australia
Prof Buchan has 30 years experience in health workforce policy and planning,
working in all WHO Regions. He is Senior Fellow at the Health Foundation, UK, and Adjunct Prof at the WHO Collaborating Centre at UTS in Australia. He is also Editor in Chief of Human Resources for Health.
Tori Bungane – Supporting Health Systems Strengthening and Health Policy, British High Commission, South Africa
Ms Bungane oversees the UK-South Africa Health Partnership including the delivery of the Better Health Programme, a Health Systems Strengthening programme providing Technical Assistance to South Africa’s Department of Health focused on
combatting Non-Communicable Diseases, improving quality of healthcare and achieving Universal Health Coverage. Previously, Tori worked for the Newton Fund, promoting research links between the UK and South Africa and with the Nelson Mandela Foundation,
partnering with Columbia University to support the impact of the interventions anti-black racism activists. Tori holds graduate qualifications in Development Finance and Health Economics, is passionate about social change and social justice, development
in the African continent, and using innovation to expedite economic transformation.
Nichole McIntosh – London Regional Head of Nursing and Midwifery, Health Education England
Ms McIntosh is the Regional Head of Nursing and Midwifery at Health Education England in London. In this role, she works closely with
partners including healthcare providers and higher education institutions across London to educate, develop and sustain a world class nursing and midwifery workforce that is fit for the 21st century and beyond. Ms McIntosh recently was awarded a honorary
visiting professorship at City, University of London. Nichole is also a poet, digital broadcaster, motivational speaker, entrepreneur and Editorial Advisor of the Royal College of Nursing Institute’s Nursing Management Journal.
Professor Gareth Rees – Profesor Ordinario, ESAN University, Peru
Prof H Rees is presently a Profesor Ordinario – Auxiliar at ESAN University in Lima Peru. His PhD researched the use of foresight to assist with health
workforce planning and policy development. He is a Senior Expert with the EU SEPEN project and consults with the WHO/PAHO on health workforce projects.
Seminar schedule
- Winter 2021, 13 December 2021, 09:30-10:30am GMT – An introduction to systemic workforce planning
- Spring 2022, 29 March 2022, 13:00 - 15:00 CEST – ‘State of Shock: the role of workforce planning in responding to shocks in demand for health and care’
- Summer 2022 – Understanding health workforce capacity TBC
- Autumn 2022 – Planning the future TBC The Year of the Health and Care Workers
For more information on the series, visit https://global.hee.nhs.uk/yhcw/ or email at TCC@hee.nhs.uk.
About Health Education England: HEE is the lead strategic workforce planning organization supporting the National Health Service (NHS) in England. It is responsible for providing system-wide leadership and oversight of the NHS’ workforce planning, education, and training. HEE builds on the NHS’ seventy years of experience delivering universal healthcare to provide health system strengthening internationally.