Over the past two years, global healthcare systems have faced significant disruption and strain due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. During this time, the skills and dedication of nurses and doctors – as frontline workers – have been highlighted.
There is also a significant shift towards managed healthcare. Through innovative technology, healthcare professionals will be able to continually monitor patients reducing the need for in-person care while increasing patient contact. This again points to a health ecosystem where the skills learned today will rapidly become irrelevant without supplementing them with key skills that can be used in a digitised future.With healthcare becoming increasingly digital with many healthcare providers being forced into the model of virtual healthcare provision. While this is a change that may have taken 10 or 15 years to take place, the Covid Pandemic has forced an immediate reaction.
MANCOSA recently launched its School of Healthcare which aims to address the Continuous Professional Development needs of healthcare workers in the country. Backed by MANCOSA’s 27 years of experience in distance and online higher education, the School of Healthcare will serve to meet the changing demands placed on South Africa’s complex, and challenged, health workforce.