Consider This: Healthcare | Supporting a stronger nursing workforce

The pressures on healthcare systems are not new but they have been intensifying, and a core pillar that has been affected is the nursing workforce. While the conversation around nursing is often framed as a shortage, the underlying issues are more complex: from remuneration and working conditions to the growing pull of overseas demand. Are current policies keeping pace with the realities facing the nursing profession today? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Rajpal Singh Baldev Singh, Corporate Head of Nursing for Mayapada Healthcare Group, which is a private healthcare group based in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2025 Rajpal received one of the world’s highest honours in nursing, the Fellowship of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.