WHO defines health innovation as new or improved solutions with the transformative ability to accelerate positive impact on health. This includes advancements that can enhance efficiency, effectiveness, quality, sustainability, safety, or affordability of health services, such as new or improved policies, practices, systems, products, technologies, services, and delivery methods. Understanding and adopting innovation requires a broad consideration of the needs and expectations of all stakeholders.
This seminar dives into the essence of innovation in health, by emphasizing ideas that can improve health services through the critical role of the workforce.
The sixth in the Working for Health 2030 webinar series co-hosted by WHO and NHS England, this seminar explored:
- What constitutes innovation in the context of the health workforce
- Identifying examples of workforce innovation and technological advancement in health service delivery practice
- How health workforce-specific innovations and technological advancements are being delivered and adopted globally
- How health workers meaningfully can contribute to the development and redesign of effective workforce innovations?
- How to ethically and sustainably manage international health worker recruitment and migration; and
- How policymakers and leaders can leverage the benefits of international and internal workforce mobility and migration.
Chair Professor Hatim Abdulhussein is the Chief Executive Officer of Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex, a GP in North West London and Honorary Professor at the University of Surrey. A member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and Fellow of Advance Higher Education and the British Computer Society.
Panelists:
- Dr Janet Muriuki, Senior director of health workforce development, IntraHealth
- Dr Moredreck Chibi, Public Health Innovation Lead at WHO Regional office for Europe
- Professor Louise Ackers , Chair in Global Social Justice in the School of Health and Society at the University of Salford UK
- Timothy Isingoma, for Knowledge for Change Uganda
Additional information: NHS England