Clinical Directors Conference 2017

The company specialises in organisation and practice benchmarking and change management and has worked with more than 100 healthcare organisations. He set up Alpha Primary Care (APC) in the UK and has worked with healthcare organisations in Manchester, Newcastle and London. The company has done extensive work with UK practices to support compliance to the Care Quality Commission’s standards and in setting up Quality Management Systems.

Jack has been approved by the Institute of Leadership & Management to give training in the areas of practice management and healthcare and is an accredited Myers Briggs Type Indicator practitioner.

Jack has a keen interest in all healthcare related matters and a particular interest in Total Quality Management, Quality Management Systems and they can lead to quantum improvements in healthcare delivery systems.

He is a Board Member of the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

She was Project Manager for the transition from diploma to nursing degree programme, working for the HSE and a third level education institution, during which time she also taught and sat on the examination board for the Obstetrics Module for degree nurses. She worked in the Dublin Mid Leinster Nursing and Midwifery Planning and Development Unit (NMPDU) for a number of years, leading out on different projects including: Clinical Liaison Manager between the Midland Health Board and third level education institution, Statutory and Mandatory Education and Training for Nurses and Midwives and, project managing the Florence Nightingale Centenary Celebration for Ireland, in Dublin Castle. She has worked as a Leadership and Innovation Advisor in the National Leadership and Innovation Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, leading out on the development of the programme for Leadership Master Classes for Nurses and Midwives.

She has worked in the Quality Improvement Division since 2013, leading out on the work for a National Patient Safety Culture Survey, developing quality and safety indicators in the acute hospitals setting and, the introduction and development of a Quality Profile with a Hospital Group.

Currently, Elaine is working as Quality Improvement Advisor on the Framework for Improving Quality. Areas of particular interests include; ‘Developing Cultures of Person Centeredness’ and as a member of the International Coach Federation – Ireland, how to have effective coaching conversations.

Ann, a former member of The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland  and today Ann  currently sits on the Preliminary Proceedings Committee. Ann has also chaired Fitness to Practice inquiries along with sitting on over 100 inquiries.  Ann is currently working as an independent advocate for TMS Advocacy a patient focused service which supports and empowers patients when problems and difficulties occur in the health care environment.

He is currently Group Clinical Director for the RCSI Hospitals Group and recently retired Consultant General and Upper GI Surgeon at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.

Prof. Broe completed his medical education at University College Dublin Medical School and having graduated in 1974 did his Basic Surgical Training in Ireland obtaining his Fellowship of RCSI in 1978. He spent two years at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore doing predominantly laboratory based research and then a year at Guy’s Hospital London as a Surgical Registrar. He returned to Ireland where he completed the Higher Surgical Training programme in 1985. He then took up the post of Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant surgeon at the Richmond Hospital and the Surgical Department of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In 1987 he was appointed Consultant General Surgeon to the Richmond Hospital which subsequently transferred to Beaumont later that year. Prof. Broe continued his surgical practice at Beaumont until his retirement in 2015.
Prof. Broe was elected as a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1991 and during his tenure served as Chair of many committees including the General Surgery Training Committee; Irish Surgical Post Graduate Training Committee; Committee for Continuing Medical Education and the Ethics & Research Committee. He was elected President of the College in 2012. In his current role as Group Clinical Director in the RCSI Hospitals Group he has a continued medical leadership role with important emphasis on quality and safety and reconfiguration of clinical services within the Group. In September 2015 he was appointed to the Board of the Bon Secours Hospital Group and he also joined the board of the Kimmage Development Studies Centre in September 2015.

He has extensive experience developing clinical leadership programmes that are applicable to the whole medical body and not just those in senior positions.  He has led on the development of numerous clinical services and initiatives that have led to significant outputs, including experience in the planning, implementation and monitoring of healthcare business processes.

Dr Simpson was an honours graduate from Queens University Belfast in 1981 and was awarded UK Medical Manager/Leader of the year by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2010.

Prospectus has advised leading organisations in Ireland on strategy and governance in most sectors of the economy.  It specialises in healthcare, social services and life sciences.

He is also the Founder of www.governance-online.com a unique global organisation providing accredited postgraduate programs in corporate governance for non-profits, multinational and healthcare organisations.

He has conducted governance reviews of acute, maternity and related healthcare organisations.

David holds a BBS (Hons) from Trinity College Dublin, an MBA from IMD Lausanne, Switzerland and he is also a Chartered Accountant.

He is in post since May 2015 – and for a period during this time also acted as the IEHG Group Risk Manager. Prior to the NMH, Luke was Director of Quality and Accreditation and Knowledge, Information and Quality Management consultant with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Institute of Leadership for 9 years. Before the RCSI Luke worked for the Dublin Dental University Hospital as their Information Systems Manager for 61/2 years during which time he was seconded to the Southern Illinois University, Alton, Illinois, USA as the Director of Dental Computing, Software and Training for 18 months.

Luke has first class honors MSc in Quality and Safety in Healthcare and a Professional Doctorate from the University of Sunderland, UK. His doctoral research topic – and now professional and personal passion – was the design and development of an integrated CQI framework for healthcare risk, incident and audit management to underpin the delivery of reliable, high quality and safe healthcare service.

Luke has lectured, trained and consulted on many aspects of healthcare quality, risk and patient safety management and systems and knowledge and information management in the RCSI, UCD and TCD in Ireland, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. He has extensive practitioner experience of quality management having implemented and/or worked to HIQA standards, JCI, Accreditation Canada, ACHS, Excellence Ireland, UAE MOHESR CAA, Bahrain HEC and ISO 27001, 9001 and 14001 standards. Luke is also a certified CHKS Healthcare Surveyor, an international ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems Lead Auditor and trainer, a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner (Project Management) and a World Health Organization consultant (risk management).

Experienced both nationally and internationally, his main interests and expertise relate to healthcare quality, risk and patient safety management and leadership, knowledge and information management and leadership and information technology solutions for healthcare.

He qualified from RCSI in 1983. He completed his Higher Specialist Training in Emergency Medicine in London, Brighton and Sydney. He is a board member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine. He is vice dean for Advanced Specialist Training in Emergency Medicine in Ireland. His particular area of interest is in Acute Sports Injury Management and Research. He is team doctor for Leinster Rugby and doctor to the Irish School’s Rugby Team.