UCL GBSH Media Feature: The NHS graduate management scheme is no longer fit for purpose

"What our health service needs is managers and leaders who understand how to create value, quality and lower costs against a backdrop of shrinking budgets and increasing demands. We expect multi-billion pound institutions to be managed by experts in business and people, and healthcare should be no different." - Professor Nora Colton, Director of the UCL Global Business School for Health.

In this recent article for the Health Service Journal, Professor Nora Colton raises the issue of how we're currently training leaders for the NHS, and discusses why the current graduate management scheme is not working. Nora asserts that due to ongoing critical issues faced by the NHS including workforce shortages and an increasingly ageing population, "there is need for change and rethinking" and that "what we need now is a more comprehensive, holistic approach to face these challenges anew."

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