A Review of Healthcare Human Resource Development: Perspective from Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Since Saudi Arabia is transforming, it is experiencing a high need for different healthcare services to help meet the desires of the rapidly expanding and ageing population. Policymakers must address the key issues of a shortage of educated healthcare professionals. The shortage of healthcare workers leads to heavy reliance on foreign labour, necessitating Human Resource Development (HRD) strategies to train and prepare a sizable pool of Saudi Arabian healthcare professionals with the necessary skills. This research contributes to Saudi Arabian healthcare by describing the experiences of healthcare professionals who have worked there under the recently set Vision 2030 reforms in different health institutions’ Human Resource Development realm. Vision 2030 shows evidence of the ground-breaking move made by the government to improve Saudi Arabia’s healthcare system and offer chances for HRD.