Agenda 4 November
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11.00 | Conference Registration | |
| 12.00 | Exhibition & lunch | |
| 13.15 | Conference opening – brief | Professor Christine Harland, President, Health Care Supply Association |
| 13.20 | Systems thinking in the public sector | Professor John Seddon – Managing Director, Vanguard |
| 14.50 | Exhibition & tea | |
| 15.20 | Response on behalf of the Association | Professor Christine Harland, President, Health Care Supply Association |
| 16.00 | A day in the life of a Trust Chief Executive | David Astley – Chief Executive St George's Hospital, London |
| 16.40 | Commerciality and the innovation agenda, a clinical perspective | St Clair Hunte – Senior Nurse Clinical Procurement Manager, Yorkshire and the Humber Commercial Procurement Collaborative |
| 17.20 | Exhibition | |
| 17.20 | AGM – Members only | |
| 20.00 | Informal Dinner |
Professor Christine Harland – President, Health Care Supply Association
Association President and Director, Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS),
University of Bath
Christine's specialist field of research is strategic supply management. Her particular interests include the development of the concept of supply strategy, a holistic approach to supply networks, formulation of strategy for supply networks, complex confederal public sector supply networks, international comparative studies of public procurement, the study of perceptions in supply chains, focus and roles in supply chains, e–procurement, and supply chain performance. She is Co–Director of the research partnership with the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency on supply strategy in the health sector, helping to innovate service packages and redesign the supply network to serve end customers better, and to deliver government objectives. She has been Principal Investigator on a number of research projects, including the EPSRC-funded Inter-Organisation Networks project, the e-Business for SME Supply Chains project funded by the DTI and BT and the Future Potential of e–Procurement within the United Nations. Christine is the current President of the Health Care Supply Association.
Professor John Seddon – Managing Director, Vanguard
John is an occupational psychologist and management thinker credited with translating the Toyota Production System (TPS) for service organisations. He maintains that the TPS is not a set of tools, but rather a different way of thinking about the design and management of work. The principles behind the TPS are counter-intuitive to the command–and–control mindset but, in service organisations, change can be achieved much faster than in manufacturing, provided managers are prepared to change the way they think. John has been an ardent critic of targets and central specifications as the means to public sector reform, arguing for innovation rather than compliance.
John is a visiting professor at the Lean Enterprise Research Centre, Cardiff Business School and Managing Director of Vanguard.
David Astley – Chief Executive, St George’s Hospital, London
Before coming to St George's, David was Chief Executive of East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust for seven years. There, he brought together three separate Trusts to form the new organisation and led a successful reconfiguration of Acute Services servicing a population of 600,000.
Other leadership experience includes 5 years as Chief Executive of Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust, where he led a PFI project to financial close to enable the closure of the Brook and Greenwich Hospitals and develop the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich he took up his current appointment in December 2006.
David currently represents NHS Employers on the National Committee for Clinical Excellence Awards which oversees the Clinical Excellence Awards process and awards Platinum Awards. In 2007, David was awarded an OBE for his services to the NHS.
St Clair Hunte – Senior Nurse Clinical Procurement Manager, Yorkshire and the Humber Commercial Procurement Collaborative
St Clair is Yorkshire and the Humber Commercial Procurement Collaborative’s lead for clinical engagement and innovation. He is dedicated to ensuring that regional and national health objectives play a key role in CPC’s workplan activity, a process that aligns itself to various elements of the SHA Healthy Ambitions strategy and helps CPC stakeholders offer their patients the best care using the best services and technology. Areas of expertise include clinical engagement, clinical procurement, assessment and adoption of new technology, and providing bespoke product evaluation solutions.
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