Healthcare Managers Urged to Find Creative Solutions to Challenges
By: , March 13, 2025
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Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Chistopher Tufton (seated second right), is surrounded by healthcare managers who successfully completed a leadership training programme done in collaboration with the University of Technology (UTech), at the graduation ceremony held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (March 11). Sharing the moment is Pro-Chancellor at UTech, Aldrick McNab (seated centre) and other staff at the University.
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Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Chistopher Tufton (right), presents an award to Medical Officer of Health for Clarendon, Dr. Kimberly Scarlett-Campbell, who was one of the top performers in a leadership training programme undertaken by the Ministry in collaboration with the University of Technology (UTech) Jamaica. Occasion was the graduation ceremony held on Tuesday (March 11) at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.
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Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Chistopher Tufton, (right), presents an award to Chief Medical Technologist at the St. Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital, Craig Ricketts, during the graduation ceremony for participants in a leadership training programme held on Tuesday (March 11) at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. The training was undertaken by the Ministry in collaboration with the University of Technology (UTech) Jamaica.The Full Story
The nation’s healthcare managers are being urged to use their knowledge and expertise to provide creative solutions to challenges in the sector.
“The solution does not have to be normal. It does not have to follow a strict protocol… . Indeed, even when the rules say do it a particular way, if you can get an exemption, you must advocate for that exemption,” said Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton.
He was addressing a graduation ceremony for 42 managers at various levels of the public health system who have successfully completed a leadership training programme, done in collaboration with the University of Technology (UTech) Jamaica.
The function was held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (March 11).
Dr. Tufton, in commending the graduates, urged them to use the knowledge gained to “make a difference in the public health system”.
“While it is absolutely necessary for you to engage in a process of knowledge acquisition around leadership and management and its basic principles, understand that the most important principle that you will leave this process with, is how you use the circumstances that are before you to apply the discipline to solve problems,” he told them.
Dr. Tufton called on the various councils in healthcare and medicine, to engage in a process of leadership and reflection to determine “to what extent certain traditions are still relevant for what we need to do today and what is best for the future”.
He said that institutions like UTech and policymakers need to lead that charge.
The graduation ceremony was held under the theme ‘Expanding Borders, Building New Bridges in Healthcare, Embracing Transformational Leadership’.
The training programme aimed to equip healthcare professionals and management executives with critical skills in leadership and management, enabling greater organisational effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of healthcare services at health centres, hospitals, and health departments.