Permanent medical or staff positions account for two thirds of the medical workforce, whereas specialist hospital trainees and temporary medical specialists make up the remaining non-permanent positions.
Claudia Pompa, researcher on markets and the private sector, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK. @claupompa Claudia is a youth and workforce development specialist, with a particular experience in youth entrepreneurship, youth financial services and products, and SME development.
There will be a shift in the financial-services workforce toward specialist developers, data scientists, infrastructure architects, coding ethicists and AI trainers stepping up into more central and critical functions.
Sophie is the Workforce Innovation Specialist at Flexcel Network, helping companies transition to very new ways of working, dealing with issues such as workplace flexibility, talent management, Millennial demands and new employee career planning needs.
BS is a health workforce development specialist, with 25 years of experience in improving workforce performance.
Also, countries should consider rectifying shortages in higher level workforce (including specialist midwives, neonatal nurses, obstetricians, paediatricians and neonatologists) as this core group is essential for building capacity of a competent workforce for the medium and long term.
Under pressure to achieve efficiencies, and with a reduced specialist workforce, mental health providers are applying increasingly strict criteria for access to their services.
This can only arise after years of sustained investment in those industries, most especially in the interconnected skills of a highly specialist workforce.
Global financial businesses tend to throng together in just a few cities where they can be sure of drawing upon a big and highly skilled specialist workforce.
The specialist workforce that carries out international financial business has risen by a half in the past 15 years, according to CEBR, a consultancy that monitors the London economy.
