The health system is an essential element of every economy and a major source of employment. India has a fast-growing healthcare sector helping millions with their primary, secondary, and tertiary care needs. There is an influence of the healthcare workforce in every country’s economy. The country is experiencing a massive healthcare transformation, with the COVID-19 crisis initiating an expedited pace of change. There is a necessity to devise a strategy to keep healthcare professionals motivated and benchmark pay packages to encourage qualified health professionals to join the active health workforce.
To examine various facets of the country’s healthcare workforce, FICCI and KPMG in India released a report titled ‘Strengthening healthcare workforce in India: the 2047 agenda – Top 20 priorities’.
The report aspires to comprehend the country’s journey and transformation of healthcare education (medical, nursing, and allied healthcare) and the imminent healthcare workforce gaps in various states. This report delivers guidance on innovative and pioneering solutions to bridge the gaps in the demand and supply of the healthcare workforce and healthcare education institutes. This is the right time for the government and the private players to operate in synergy toward translating the top priorities into a plan and target to achieve the 2047 agenda of strengthening the Indian healthcare workforce.
Key recommendations for strengthening the healthcare workforce
India has already paved the way to immensely improve the quality of medical education in India. The report recommends the below six levers that support the future roadmap for strengthening the healthcare workforce in India to make it more robust and future ready.
- Embedding governance mechanisms and frameworks
- Upskilling of the healthcare workforce and faculty
- Fostering and monetisation of healthcare educational infrastructure
- Incentivisation and social safeguards for the healthcare workforce
- Leveraging digital universities and institutes
- Unlocking the potential of emerging technologies
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