The nursing contribution to Universal Health Coverage

1. Taking action
Second part
• Co-development
• Building a health creating society
• Global policy and choices
Turning the world upside down
Nigel Crisp
The nursing contribution to
Universal Health Coverage
THET Annual Conference
24th October 2017
Jane Salvage

2. Nurses are key to UHC
Nurses are half the global
health workforce.
UHC will not be achieved
without strengthening
nursing.

3. SEARO:
India
1963

4. EMRO:
Afghanistan
1960

5. EURO:
Lapland
1953

6. AFRO:
Nigeria
1961

7. WPRO:
Japan
1963

8. Kyrgyzstan

9. Wild terrain

10. Nomadic traditions

11. UHC?

12. Gulnar
Family health nurse

13. What Gulnar’s story tells us:
the nursing challenges
• Strengthening nursing is central to UHC and the
Triple Impact
• Where there is no doctor – there is usually a nurse!
• Invest in nursing projects
• Include nurses in projects AT ALL LEVELS
• Nothing about us without us
• Projects must model teamwork
• Leadership and policy engagement crucial
• The hidden and untapped potential of nursing
• Support and energize nursing leaders!

14. A new story of health and
healthcare
Nurses, as leading actors in a new
story of health and healthcare, are
at the heart of sustainable health
systems that meet individual and
population needs, are fit for the
present, and innovative and
adaptable for the future.

15. Jane Salvage
Independent health and nursing
consultant, and policy activist
janesalvage@me.com
www.janesalvage.com