Ashfield Meetings & Events come onboard for 2019 Educational visits

Ashfield Meetings & Events come onboard for 2019 Educational visits

by | Oct 22, 2018 | Meetings, News, Thought Leadership, Venues

Our Educational visits took us to the offices of healthcare specialist agency, Ashfield Meetings and Events, this month. Meeting some of their key operations and venue find staff were the Venue Healthcare Champions from the Park Plaza Westminster and Riverbank. Such was the positive feedback, we are now working on a series of Educational Visits with Ashfield for 2019. Our educational visits bring meeting bookers and venues together in an educational environment, which creates business partnerships within a mutually effective training session. Held at the healthcare specialist agency’s office, Venue Healthcare Champions meet with members of the agency in a pioneering and innovative networking and training session. If you would like to know more about who else we are working with, or want to participate in one of our visits, contact Simon Beard.

Healthcare Venues changing the way hotels are visiting specialist agencies

Healthcare Venues changing the way hotels are visiting specialist agencies

by | Aug 21, 2018 | News, Thought Leadership, Venues

Healthcare Venues has created a pioneering and innovative method to bring meeting bookers and venues together, in an educational environment, which creates business partnerships within a mutually effective training session. Open to HCVs only: 2/3 venues per visit to be held at Healthcare specialist agency’s offices. 6-12 members of an agency operations teams attend from venue finders to senior management. 1.5 – 2 hours of agency engagement in an educational session where the venues are seen as the experts. Education based on a ‘tailored’ case study in which the benefits of working with a trained Venue Healthcare Healthcare Champion and Healthcare Venue are weaved into the solution. Understanding of agency Business Mix: the type of meetings held, the number of events and their location to enable a venue to tailor their marketing going forward Unrivalled networking opportunity. Click here to read what our agency and venue partners thought of the visit. If you are interested in being involved in the next Educational Visit, please contact [email protected].
Article – Are Doctors Really Influenced by the Pharmaceutical Industry?

Article – Are Doctors Really Influenced by the Pharmaceutical Industry?

by | Aug 6, 2018 | Experts, Thought Leadership

Interesting Article for those with an interest in business Ethics with a Healthcare sector twist.

An initial report did a study of Open Payments data (HCPs (Doctor, nurses) payments from Healthcare companies) against prescriptions issued and found a positive link that payment of meals = prescriptions.

A new study claimed that there is no link using the following key data. “What Fonseca and Tucker found was that doctors who accepted no free meals from opioid manufacturers wrote anywhere between 0 and 1000 prescriptions in 2015 – the same as those who accepted 50 or more free meals from opioid manufacturers.”

Me, I think meals / hospitality may help you get you a seat at the table but scientific evidence is needed to influence the vast majority of HCPs prescribing behaviours. Seems some may think differently. In Europe, Asia and South America, perhaps there is a regional / national cultural difference in how professionals see hospitality. My sense is the incoming generations see it as much less acceptable.

What Simon Says!

What Simon Says!

by | Feb 14, 2018 | News, Thought Leadership

At the end of March and then every 3 months thereafter, Venue Healthcare Champions only can join a quarterly webcast hosted by me, Healthcare Venues Compliance Consultant, Simon Beard. On the call we will shine the light on compliance challenges with some case studies followed by an open Question and Answer Session. So look out for the calendar appointments and don’t miss out on this excellent opportunity to find out more on how healthcare compliance is impacting you at venue level.