Mark Handforth, Author at 3sixty

Event Travel Management Complete our Agency Compliance Champion Course

by Mark Handforth | Apr 8, 2016 | Experts, News

Congratulations to the team at Event Travel Management who have completed our training course for specialist Healthcare sector event management agencies. Particular congratulations to Lee-Yen who as you can see gained the Compliance Star award at our face to face meeting.

Martha Allen
Lee-Yen Chen

Kalia Coulston
Victoria Deprez

Mark Forms
Mike Leeson

Ashleigh Rimmer
Ann-Marie Stearn

To learn more about the Event Management solutions offered by Event click here

MCI Sign priority status deal with Healthcare-Venues.com

by Mark Handforth | Apr 1, 2016 | Experts, News, Venues

Healthcare-Venues.com is pleased to welcome in 2016 with news of a strategic partnership with the MCI Group

This partnership will find HCV.com providing all training for regulatory codes for meetings & events to MCI Global, Regional and Local teams, via its Healthcare Events Portal training tool, whilst MCI will incorporate all HCV.com venues into their priority venue programme for healthcare sector meetings.

This will mean that venues who are part of our solution will be at the top of the sourcing list for RFPs for MCI’s healthcare sector clients. In addition, our team will have direct access to MCI teams to promote our venues. This partnership supports our growth as an international solution with our first overseas venues likely to come on line in Q1, 2016.

Cerstin Steindorf, Director of Healthcare at MCI said “the healthcare sector is increasingly complex and codes are changing the very way that we work. It is essential to MCI and our clients that we stay ahead of these changes, educate our teams, and work with likeminded people in the supply chain community passionate to improve how we collectively deliver code compliant meetings to our clients. This partnership is integral to that aim.”

Mark Handforth of HCV.com Feels “MCI have been fantastic in embracing and supporting what we are trying to do, educating the M&E community on the specific impacts of sector regulatory codes and providing tools, in this case our venue assessment reports, to make appropriate to code venue selection easier. Our Venue Healthcare Champions go through extensive and on-going training to learn how to work effectively in the sector and this partnership will keep them on their toes as their clients, like MCI expect them to deliver on the training promise”.

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1 out of 10 venues don’t get it

by Mark Handforth | Mar 23, 2016 | News, Thought Leadership, Venues

Our summary was “are venues doing enough to support you in delivering your proposals to clients?” the answer is at best, work in progress, it’s clear that on the ground in the mdevents proposal writing team they feel education needs to improve, cascading knowledge deep into venue teams in how to work within the healthcare sector is key and a recognition that flexibility isn’t just a word, but in the case of terms and conditions a key corporate driver to where they will place their meetings now and in the future. Click here to read the full opinion piece on Linkedin

Is there a battle ahead for the ownership of Healthcare Sector Meetings and Events?

by Mark Handforth | Mar 23, 2016 | Experts, Thought Leadership

We recently posted an opinion piece on LinkedIn, here we summarised some of the battle grounds, for want of a more accurate phrase, that we believe may change the face of meetings and events in the sector.

Compliance to Regulatory codes forms a part of this journey (but we would say that wouldn’t we J), what is becoming clear is that the provision of medical education, CME and CPD is likely to change. Is industry planning to take a more fundamental place in delivering this rather than simply funding hands off programmes?, on this matter and more please read here.

Your comments welcome.

Destinations Unlimited – 1st Representation Company to undertake our healthcare sector training programme

by Mark Handforth | Mar 21, 2016 | Experts, News

Destinations Unlimited – 1st Representation Company to undertake our healhcare sector training programme

Destinations UNLIMTED, the DMC Representation Company is proud to announce that its global team has recently undertaken the training programme Understanding the Healthcare Sector – Compliance for Meetings and Events delivered by Compliant Venues Ltd.

Darren Mitchell, Partner says:

“Over our 27-year history we have endeavoured to adapt, not only to the ever increasing changes within our industry, but also to the demands of Events Agencies and Corporate Planners. We recognised that in order to further enhance our client solutions that this training was essential as it enables us to deliver sector specific added value to the services we provide clients. Our network of global DMCs will also be undertaking training sessions focused on RFP responses, understanding TOV, ground handling with code in mind and audit trails to be delivered by Compliant Venues; and as such, we aim to be the first DMC Representation Company, backed up by our DMCs, trained to provide tailored solutions to a very specialist sector within the MICE Market.”

He added; “I would like to take this opportunity to thank the team at Compliant Venues Ltd for the excellent way in which this training was delivered as well as for the continuous support that has been provided throughout the process. We and our DMCs look forward to continuing this very much valued working relationship.”

For our part we are very excited to welcome another partner to our training programme. DU are a professional and passionate team and we have already seen the training being used to improve proposals and question meeting arrangements that would previously have been seen as acceptable.

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