Strikes are crippling the NHS in the UK with junior doctors demanding a 35% hike with estimated staff shortages expected to quadruple to 571,000 by 2036. Meanwhile, in France, 30pc of all nurses don’t complete their training. So what can be done to build workforce pipelines and retain existing staff?  How do you create career ladders? 

At HBI 2023 in June, three healthcare providers from the UK, Germany and Saudi Arabia will share how they are approaching this challenge. 

Saudi Arabia and the UAE rely heavily on expats in health care but seeing many tempted to foreign shores. The biggest competition for nursing staff in the UAE is the British Embassy.  Now governments are increasing efforts to drive education and promote health care roles to locals. Dr Fatih Mehmet Gul, VP Fakeeh Care Group, CEO, Fakeeh University Hospital will discuss how it has broken the cycle by building a talent pipeline of locally trained clinicians to meet escalating demand. 

The prospect of working in lightless rooms, exposed to radio waves and delivering often devastating news to patients is a contributing factor to a shortage of radiologists globally. Sandra Röddiger, executive partner, RadioOnkologieNetzwerk, Ergéa Group, will share how the group is working to change perceptions of the role and develop a more practical training route than traditional medical schools. 

The UK’s second-largest private hospital group Spire Healthcare employs a considerable workforce of more than 15,000 people. Against a backdrop of strikes, high inflation, and sky-rocketing demand  Rachel King, Group HR Director, looks at how Spire is building nursing apprenticeship programmes and hospital management career paths. 

Emma Pearson, CEO of UK Learning Disability Care provider, Achieve Together shares how social care careers are unique in being able to take people from 16 leaving school to senior managerial positions within five years.

Hear them speak on How to solve the workforce puzzle, Tuesday, June 21, moderated by Eilert Hinrichs, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting.