Disrupting the present to build a stronger health workforce for the future: a three-point agenda
Robin Gauld
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1 University of Otago, Otago Business School, New Zealand
Correspondence to: Robin Gauld, University of Otago, Otago Business School, New Zealand. Email: robin.gauld@otago.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 10(1) 6-10 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC17083
Published: 29 March 2018
Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2018.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Abstract
The health professional workforce in high-income countries is trained and organised today largely as it has been for decades. Yet health care professionals and their patients of the present and future require a different model for training and working. The present arrangements need a serious overhaul: not just change, but disruption to the institutions that underpin training and work organisation. This article outlines a three-point agenda for this, including: the need to reorganise workforce and care systems for multimorbidity; to reorient workforce training to build genuine inter-professionalism; and to place primary care at the apex of the professional hierarchy.
KEYWORDS: Health workforce; health professionals; medical professionals; disruption; institutions
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