Reimagining Health Workforce Models for the AI Era with Susan Nancarrow

Send us Fan MailSusan Nancarrow shares her journey from podiatrist to healthcare workforce revolutionary, explaining how invisible structures maintain inefficiencies while restricting innovation. She explains the need for healthcare workforce transformation, challenging outdated professional boundaries that have defined our system since the Industrial Revolution. • Healthcare's professional boundaries are among the most socially entrenched structures in our society• Current systems create unnecessary bottlenecks, such as requiring GP referrals to access specialized mental health services• Artificial intelligence is democratizing medical knowledge, shifting power from practitioners to patients• Traditional workforce pipelines are being disrupted as AI takes over entry-level tasks• Dual career pathways can recognize skills developed on-the-job while creating progression opportunities• Communities of practice across countries enable leaders to share challenges and build confidence to drive change• More flexible workforce models organized around competencies rather than professional identities can better serve patient needsThe impact of AI on professional rolesFrom Bureaucratic Closure to Algorithmic Governance: AI and the Neo-Weberian Crisis of the ProfessionsHow we unpack the professions through a managerialist framework - which could result in the end of the professions as we currently know themThe Two-Sided Ledger: Managerialism, AI and the Unmaking of the Professions The Reimagined Workforce podcast is brought to you by Workforce Transformations Australia Pty. Ltd.All opinions expressed are the speaker's and not the organisations they represent.If you have a story about a workforce transformation to share and would like to be a guest on this podcast, please contact us at [email protected] with Kath Hume on LinkedInPurchase Kath's book Learn Solve Thrive: Making a difference that matters in a fast and complex world:Learn Solve Thrive: Making a difference that matters in a fast and complex world : Hume, Kathryn Lee: Amazon.com.au: Books