Healthcare sector ‘facing challenges’: report

Healthcare sector ‘facing challenges’: report

MANAMA: Even as the pandemic is accelerating transformation in healthcare systems across the globe, obstacles including workforce stability, provider incentivisation and innovation barriers threaten to slow progress, according to 200 healthcare leaders from around the world. Top officials from some of the world’s leading public and private healthcare providers in eight geographies were interviewed for KPMG’s first ever Global Healthcare CEO Future Pulse. The report’s breadth and scale offers insights into how healthcare leaders overseeing hospitals, health systems and care provider networks are preparing for the future. Healthcare providers have been on the frontlines of international efforts to tackle the pandemic. Now, as many jurisdictions plan and transition to post-Covid recovery, the healthcare sector itself is preparing for longer-term transformation. While more than half of CEOs (62 per cent) were already undertaking substantial change prior to the pandemic, Covid-19 has significantly accelerated the change agendas of 97pc of respondents. The vast majority (79pc) of CEOs interviewed believe that, within the next three years, all aspects of care delivery models will be transformed, but the sector faces significant obstacles and challenges ahead. Ability to meet demand, the impact of new operating models on staff, supporting wellness and recruiting new talent were