The current generation of younger professionals will soon make up the majority of our local healthcare workforce in South Africa. They have the responsibility – and the privilege – of delivering the changes that are needed to ensure healthcare systems are fit for purpose. Value-based care is the ultimate aspiration of this, delivered through the Quadruple Aim of better health outcomes, improved patient and staff experience, and lower cost of care. The challenge to transform healthcare lies on this group’s shoulders, but too often their views are not widely understood. The Future Health Index 2020 for South Africa explores this generation's expectations around technology, training and job satisfaction, and the reality of their experience as healthcare professionals.
The current generation of younger professionals will soon make up the majority of our local healthcare workforce in South Africa. They have the responsibility – and the privilege – of delivering the changes that are needed to ensure healthcare systems are fit for purpose. Value-based care is the ultimate aspiration of this, delivered through the Quadruple Aim of better health outcomes, improved patient and staff experience, and lower cost of care.
The challenge to transform healthcare lies on this group’s shoulders, but too often their views are not widely understood. The Future Health Index 2020 for South Africa explores this generation's expectations around technology, training and job satisfaction, and the reality of their experience as healthcare professionals.
Many feel their medical education did not prepare them for certain aspects of their career
Say their medical education has not prepared them at all for business administration tasks
How much younger healthcare professionals knew about value-based care
Only knew it by name/a little/nothing at all
Don’t know how to use digital patient data to inform patient care
Are overwhelmed by the amount of digital patient data
Disagree or neither agree nor disagree that the reality of their career lives up to their hopes and expectations
Workplace culture
Latest equipment / technologies
Reputation
Work/life balance
Percentages are NETS.
Base (unweighted): Total younger healthcare professionals excluding those who selected 'salary - important to you' (n=663)
The 2020 study comprises original research via a survey of 2,867 healthcare professionals under the age of 40 years old across 15 countries: Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa and the United States of America.
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