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Nigel Edwards, KPMG in the UK 

Nigel is a major figure in global healthcare, with expertise in national healthcare policy planning, design and reform.

Transcript:

I’m Nigel Edwards, I’m a member of the Center of Excellence. I’m based in the UK, I also worked for the King’s Fund, which is a think tank. It’s very well known in the UK, but it also has a big international reach, and as part of that I am advisor to WHO regional [PH] face for Europe on hospitals and health systems.

 

What I’ve been doing a lot in the UK, both in my last job—both my role in the King’s Fund and at the KPMG, is making people think differently and challenging some of the preconceptions that they carry. So one of the things that I do when meeting new clients or prospective clients is helping them reframe the way they think about healthcare delivery.

 

I think the big challenge we face in healthcare today is that we’re operating business models that we really know are broken. And we’re keeping operating them because we haven’t really worked out yet what the new ones are. So the challenge for KPMG and for our clients is to work out what a new business model looks like, which provides better healthcare for patients. It focuses on value rather than some of the processes that we have been obsessed with in many cases before, and does this without having to continually ask for more money from governments and from insurance companies. Because there won’t be that money; people are not prepared to put their hand in their pockets, at least in the west. In the emerging markets, the big challenge of them is to not replicate western models of healthcare and find themselves in the position that we are in, in 15 years’ time.

 

I’m very interested in the future of hospitals; how primary care works in future. I’ve got a particular interest in the relationship between doctors and their organizations, and how to get clinicians—particularly physicians—better aligned with the future direction of organizations. There’s some very big challenges coming for them. But basically, if you are interested in new models of care delivery, new ways of thinking about the healthcare system, I’m probably the person that you want to talk to.

Challenging healthcare leaders to think differently

Nigel is a renowned worldwide authority on health policy and delivery systems. His work addresses a range of issues including national and local policy design and evaluation, payment system reform and performance management.


In a distinguished career, Nigel has served on a number of boards and commissions and has been closely involved in the development of activity-based funding in the UK NHS, representing both payers and providers.


Having gained an intimate understanding of how healthcare policy is formed and implemented, Nigel is keen to stimulate new ways of thinking in order to reshape health systems.


Nigel has recently worked with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy and the Nuffield Trust, looking at the future of payment systems in Europe and as an advisor to the WHO Regional Office for Europe on healthcare delivery, strategy, financing and policy. He is a Senior Fellow with the King’s Fund, an internationally recognized think tank and research institute.


Previous roles include Policy Director of the NHS Confederation, the membership body for providers and payers in the NHS, and Director of the London Health Economics Consortium for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he is currently an honorary visiting professor.


Nigel has a degree from Oxford University and an MBA from the University of Westminster.

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