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B oth our Healthcare,andPublic SectorSpecial Interest Groups are led by
alumni from the Business School, with support from the Alumni Relations
Office, who use their extensive knowledge and experience in their sectors to
organise thought-provoking presentations from guest speakers.
In March the Healthcare SIG met for the third time to examine the role of clinicians
in addressing the healthcare productivity challenge. Driven by the fact that the
NHS is under increasing pressure to achieve £15 – 20 billion of savings by 2014,
the group looked at whether clinicians should be involved in the decision-making
process and how savings can be made while minimising impact on patient care.
Two clinicians, one from primary care: Dr Mark Ashworth, a GP and partner at the
Hurley Clinic in Southwark and Clinical Senior Lecturer at Kings College London,
and Professor Derek Bell, Head of Acute Medicine at Imperial College, led the
debate which was attended by alumni, students and healthcare professionals.
Both clinicians shared their first-hand experiences of tackling the productivity
challenge and the difficulties associated with actually defining the issue.
Dr Ashworth gave an example from his own organisation which had taken over a
failing surgery in Southwark from the Primary Care Trust in 2006 and had turned it
round within twelve months, in the process achieving savings of £260,000.
Photo from left to right:
Professor Derek Bell, Michael
Barker, Executive MBA 2002
and SIG organiser, Dr Mark
Ashworth and Dr Suraj Bassi, MSc
International Health Management
2009 and SIG organiser
Three years ago we established Special Interest Groups
(SIGs) with the aim of engaging with and providing a forum
for alumni and professionals to come together and debate
topical issues affecting their sectors.
Knowledge sharing
at our Special
Interest Groups
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