Win-win-win is the new trend in healthcare career

Skilled staff and professionals are still the backbone.

Like an intricate machine, the healthcare industry functions with numerous cogs, each rotating to make the whole thing work. However, this complexity makes it often easy to forget that healthcare is essentially leaning on skilled staff and medical professionals who collectively drive the whole patient experience from start to end.

According to Janson Yap, a healthcare analyst from Deloitte, career mobility and equality for healthcare staff are emerging as two of the most pressing concerns in the healthcare industry, as professionals demand more mobility as markets become more integrated. “The healthcare ecosystem will be facing stiffer competition for healthcare professionals. As it is, countries like Singapore and Malaysia are transit countries for foreign nurses seeking further migration to end destination countries and this has created staffing gaps in the respective health systems,” Yap said.

Yap says a long term goal is to work towards a tripartite system leveraged on a triple-dividend relationship, or a win-win-win relationship between the healthcare industry, the healthcare worker, and the consumer. “This will go a long way to ensuring the health and vitality of the entire healthcare ecosystem, and ensuring a continued evolution of the quality of the overall healthcare experience,” Yap added.

“Hence, there is an increasing importance for any healthcare system of the future to have its priorities set on equal and fair access regardless of social standing via a variety of funding mechanisms best suited to the context,” Yap said.