SIG - Healthcare Group
About us
The healthcare industry accounts for around 10% of GDP in the UK, and more in
the EU and USA. Henley Business School's Alumni include a wide range of key players from this industry.
The objectives of the Healthcare Special Interest Group are to:
- Ask and debate the Big Questions in healthcare: essentially how the pressures of increasing demand can be best supplied;
- Achieve this in the context of interesting meetings that encourage an interested and engaged membership;
- Develop a community of interest and a worthwhile contribution to the ongoing debate within the industry;
- Initiate contact with key players in the industry, sharing knowledge and best practice, and specifically looking for connections and synergies that can benefit the health care industry.
The Group will therefore provide a common ground for members to network and to learn about the potential for synergies across the healthcare and associated industries, both in the UK and internationally. We start from a proposal that the Group has a wide and inclusive remit to cover those organisational, policy, strategic and commercial issues facing all areas of healthcare, including: hospitals, clinicians, insurance, and equipment and service suppliers for both the state and private sectors, consulting, investment, construction and others.
Membership
Full Membership of the SIG is open to all alumni. It is intended that the activities of the Group are developed by the membership, and members will be asked to help provide support including speakers, case studies and sponsorship. Guests of members are welcome at events and may attend future meetings as an Associate Member. The SIG is self-financing and it is planned that all events will at least cover their costs. Guests and Associates will be asked to pay a differential premium price for all events.
Management Steering Group
The SIG is self-managing and is led by a Management Steering Group made up of Henley alumni. Members can join the Steering Group by contacting the Chairman and by election at the AGM. It is expected that Steering Group members will serve in any role for approximately 18 months and then rotate into another role, not serving for more than three consecutive terms, that is, approximately four and a half years in total. The present membership of the Group is:
Philip Housden - Chair
Email: philip.housden@housdengroup.co.uk
Janice Kite - Deputy Chair & Events
Email: aimconsultinguk@btinternet.com
Chris Eaton - Events
Email: eaton.chris@btinternet.com
Rohan Badenhorst - Treasurer
Email: rohan@3resource.com
William Wilkins - Henley Alumni Office liaison & web/on-line community
Email: wilkins.william@virgin.net
Meetings
It is intended that there are 3 or 4 meetings a year. The likely programme is for meetings to be held in: January; May and September. In addition, an Annual General Meeting will be held that may be separate to the speaker events. Management Steering Group meetings will be held as required, often a short meeting before main meetings.
Events
Healthcare & Architecture - 13 June 2012
"How the Built Environment Impacts on Healthcare"
Venue: Clydesdale Bank, 88 Wood Street, London EC2V 7QQ
Speaker: Simon Henley, partner, Henley Halebrown Rorrison, Public Building Architect of the Year 2011
Time: 18.15 for 19.00 start - the event will aim to finish by 21.00
Cost (including buffet and wine): £15 for current students, £25 for alumni and £30 for guests/non alumni
Buildings form the foundations for society: they are our homes, they provide a setting for the health service, the education of our children and young people, and the arts. Equally they are the instruments of commerce. In each case the architecture is a catalyst for social interaction and personal endeavour. Simon's objective is to create excellent physical environments in support of the carer. Careful consideration is given to the impact the buildings have on patients, staff and neighbours in their humanity, material quality and appearance. The practice won the Architect of the Year award 2008 for Healthcare for The Waldron, a health centre in Lewisham.
Simon Henley, BA (Hons) BArch RIBA
Born in 1967, Simon studied at the University of Liverpool (1986-1992) where he was awarded the Reilly Medal in 1992, and at the University of Oregon, USA (1990-1991). Simon combines practice with teaching, writing and research, and is the author of The Architecture of Parking (Thames & Hudson, 2007), which won 'Winner of the RIBA International Book Award for Construction 2008'. Simon is Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and an External Examiner at the Mackintosh Glasgow School of Architecture. He is a member of the Design Council CABE Design Review Panel and a Member of The Academy of Urbanism. Simon was also, until their demise last year, a member of the NHS Design Review Panel and the CABE Enabling Panel. In 2002 Simon was shortlisted for Corus 'Young Architect of the Year' and, in 2005, exhibited in the 40Under40 UK Architects exhibition at the V&A.
Book your place:
We would like to encourage you to book and pay for your place online, using a credit or debit card. Book a place and pay by debit or credit card
If, however, you would prefer to book a place and pay by cheque, please complete the Booking Form and return to Alumni Services, Henley Business School, Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire RG9 3AU or email Irina.woodford@henley.com.
Event reports
On 23 November, the Health Care SIG was delighted to welcome back an old friend, Prof Nick Bosanquet of Imperial College. Prof Bosanquet was our inaugural speaker at the launch event of the Healthcare SIG in January 2010. Professor Nick Bosanquet reprised his macro review of the extreme challenges facing UK health care, and offered a way out of the ongoing crises.
Professor Bosanquet offered three specific suggestions for improving performance and sustainability in the NHS / Healthcare Sector.
- Strong Financial Management
- Transfer of Power to Local Teams
- Sound Cost Control Measures
Introducing a culture of accountability, responsibility and value delivery should be an evolution towards sounder overall financial performance. Within the politics of the Healthcare Sector, three specific words stood out.
- Fudge - the redesign challenge facing the current government
- Integration - to introduce more flexible working practices and empowering local teams
- Trust - implied co-operation and collaboration between public and private sectors
Hence to conclude we need to address the haemorrhage in the NHS finances, however, we also need to focus on forgetting our collective amnesia, as change and progress is part of the evolutionary process.
A lively question and answer session was enjoyed by the group.
For a copy of the presentation please click here
'How can we use telemedicine to beat healthcare’s demographic time bomb?' – 11 October 2011
In the second event of 2011, the Henley Healthcare Group focused on How can we use telemedicine to beat healthcare’s demographic time bomb. We were pleased to welcome Dr Richard Curry, e-health development director for South East England Health Technology Association at our meeting at Clydesdale Bank.
Richard is currently Senior Scientific Advisor to the Department of Health's research initiative on the role of technology in supporting chronic disease management, self care and healthy living and is an advisor to the TSB on their Assisted Living Innovation platform. He is also a member of the Healthcare Management Group at Imperial College Business School where he has published extensively on the subject of assisted living and is involved in the evaluation of both the DH's Whole System Demonstrator project and the Welsh Assembly's Telecare Capital Grant programme.
Richard presented the changing picture of healthcare from the short term care in the acute hospital to the increasing long term care of our aging population which generated much interest and many questions from the audience on how to manage this change by using technology and understanding the changing pathways to deliver personalised tailored treatment to patients in the community. Richard presented a very enlightening talk and one that created a lot of questions that as a society we will have to manage carefully in the coming decade.
Philip Housden, our SIG Chair closed the meeting thanking Richard for his presentation and the energy with which he communicated it.
'China Healthcare Reform: It's Big. Really Big!' - 15 March 2011
In the first event of 2011, the Henley Healthcare Group focused on China. The topic was "China Healthcare Reform: It's Big, Really Big. Can even China afford it and how can the UK benefit". We were pleased to welcome Dr Allan Syms, Global Value Chain Specialist (China) Life Science for the UKTI at our meeting at Clydesdale Bank.
Allan had the opportunity to meet most of the 40 delegates during drinks before the presentation which encouraged a very interactive evening. The Q&A throughout the presentation enabled the audience to understand the significant healthcare investment in China, some of the cultural aspects of doing business with China and potentially how UK businesses can benefit from the high regard that China puts on the UK NHS. Allan covered a broad range of healthcare subjects from pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices to building new hospitals, thus demonstrating his extensive knowledge of the subject.
Chris Eaton closed the meeting thanking Allan for his presentation and the energy with which he communicated it.
'Turning an Industry on its Head? The NHS Big Experiment'
The Healthcare SIG held an event focused on understanding the implications of the Coalition Government's recent health reforms. Titled 'Turning an Industry on its Head? The NHS Big Experiment' we were pleased to welcome Dr Paul Zollinger-Read as guest speaker. This turned out to be a timely invitation as Paul announced the day before the event that he had resigned his dual Chief Executive role for both Cambridgeshire and Peterborough PCTs to combine a national role leading GP involvement in commissioning healthcare with a part-time post as Medical Director of the King's Fund, the independent Think Tank.
Over 40 hardy souls braved the Arctic weather to hear Paul recount his personal career journey from Essex GP to the present day, before sharing his views on how the White Paper, which proposes a radically different healthcare landscape where GPs hold 80% or more of hard budgets for the first time, will turn the established system on its head. GPs as the buyers of services will now therefore hold real power. The advantages for patients and UK plc to both gain as system efficiency is achieved were key themes.
The evening concluded with Henley Alumni and their guests enjoying an indepth and candid question and answer session. Janice Kite, vice chair of the SIG, closed the meeting by thanking Paul and noting that we all expected, after hearing him speak, that his rating will improve next year from number 62 in this year's recently published Health Service Journal UK Healthcare Top 100!
Innovation in Healthcare: the route to saving £20Bn?
The Healthcare SIG's second event of the year was kindly hosted by Clydesdale Bank on Wednesday 19 May 2010. Over 50 members and their guests enjoyed a stimulating evening exploring the proposal: "Innovation in Healthcare: the route to saving £20Bn?". The three speakers were:
Jim Dawton, MD, Designit UK - who suggested that £20Bn could not be realised without thinking differently about products and also about staff and patient involvement
Andrew Rudd, from Andrew Rudd Consulting, previously Chief Operating Officer of the NHS Purchasing & Supplies Agency - who explored how the work of PASA to enable reduced purchasing costs still had room for further efficiencies, but that this could only be a supporting part to real change in the style of healthcare provision
Dan Jones, Communications Manager for the Association of British Healthcare Industries - who proposed that the contribution of small and medium sized businesses in the healthcare sector still had a great deal of underutilized potential to offer to the NHS
A lively question and answer panel discussion followed and a great deal of positive networking was also achieved!
For copies of the three presentations, please click here:
- Jim Dawton presentation (PDF-589 KB)
- Andrew Rudd presentation (PDF-1,321 KB)
- Dan Jones presentation (PDF-715 KB)
Health Care SIG Launched!
I am delighted that Henley's newest Alumni Special Interest Group - the Health Care SIG - was launched so successfully at the inaugural event held on Wednesday 27 January, with over 40 new members present. The SIG will provide a forum in which all those involved in the wider health industry can hear about and discuss interesting and challenging issues. We were grateful to the British Journal of Health Care Management for their generous sponsorship of the event.
For our first meeting we welcomed Professor Nick Bosanquet of Imperial College and the think tank Reform. Prof Bosanquet spoke on the stimulating and thought provoking topic "UK Health Care 2010-15: Heading for the Rocks?".
"Professor Bosanquet noted a number of successes that the NHS has been able to delver and set out a number of challenges facing the NHS, warning of a potential crisis as early as 2011. Professor Bosanquet went on to highlight some opportunites for the NHS through recombinations, competition, a focus on prevention rather than cure, and local empowerment for the system to mitigate the impacts of these challenges.
It was pleasing to learn from Professor Bosanquet that the skills learnt at Henley Business School would have a large part to play in addressing the challenges faced by the NHS"
After a lively question and answer session there was a short business meeting at which a number of members volunteered their services to join the SIG Management Group. This Group will meet shortly to draft a proper Terms of Reference, agree distribution of responsibilities and prepare the rest of the 2010 programme of events. Further details of the date, topic and venue of our second meeting will be sent out to members after that meeting and posted on the website.
British Journal of Healthcare Management
British Journal of Healthcare Management (BJHCM) is the independent monthly journal which is essential reading for all health service managers, policymakers, influencers and commentators. To receive an exclusive 20% magazine subscription discount, please telephone the Journal's subscriptions hotline on 0800 137201 and quote 'Henley discount'.
Contact us
If you have any comments or queries regarding the SIG or have offers of venues or speaker contacts you can share, please get in touch:
- Email: healthcare@henley.com
- Telephone: +44 (0) 1491 418 777
- Fax: +44 (0) 1491 418 861