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as a Professor at the Global Business School for Health in University College London, alongside his roles as a Trustee of The Kings Fund and visiting Senior Fellow & Executive in Residence at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada.

‘In Search of the Perfect Health System’

By 2030, the world will be short of approximately 15mn health workers –a fifth of the workforce needed to keep healthcare systems going.

The global workforce crisis facing the Healthcare sector is a passion of Britnell’s, and his two books, In Search of the Perfect Health System and Human: Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare, thoroughly examine international healthcare systems, questioning practices and seeking to answer: what is the perfect health system?

In Search of the Perfect Health System won the health and social care category at the British Medical Association's Medical Book Awards 2016 and, in 2017, was awarded Best Health Book in China from the Chinese Medical Doctors Association, the first non-Chinese writer to achieve the accolade.

Nhs

Alongside the multiple roles within the NHS that Britnell has held, he has also benefited from NHS care. At 42, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, for which he received life-saving care from the NHS that he has publicly praised. He is now a board member of Prostate Cancer UK and donates all royalties from his books to the charity.