“Prioritise wellbeing and always look beyond the surface-level symptoms of a problem to find new solutions”: Interview with Dr Anas Nadar, Co-Founder and CEO of Patchwork
Summary
We sat down with Dr Anas Nadar, who experienced burnout whilst working as an NHS doctor, about Patchwork, his personal story, and how tech can help improve healthcare for the future. He was feeling similarly frustrated with the challenges presented by the NHS’s workforce model, and by the limited options: stay in a career you love and have trained hard for, amongst colleagues who really need you, but risk burnout. Enabling shifts to be advertised and booked online to an approved pool of clinicians, and allowing staff credentials to be easily and compliantly passported so they can work across different sites, will result in more resilient workforce management. But one of my proudest moments is undoubtedly having been able to play a part in keeping NHS organisations safely staffed during the pandemic and supporting the COVID-19 mass vaccination roll-out, whilst also pioneering new ways to enable staff to get the respite they need. We want to continue supporting NHS teams to fill the gaps created by the staffing shortage, while simultaneously enabling staff to enjoy fulfilling careers; protecting their wellbeing to ensure utmost patient safety.