Positive feedback

Yesterday the day started with the 9.30 head‘s of section meeting where we had an interesting exchange of views on the Iberoamerican Conference held in Chile over the weekend; where Presidents of most of the Iberoamerican countries participated. It was a big change from the previous day when I was at the pool with my 3 children.

It has been a good week so far, as I received very positive feedback from 2 companies that we have been helping.

Dr. Jagdeesh Dhaliwal, Course Director MSc. in Health Services Management at Warwick University sent a nice email with feedback on the 4th Internship on Primary Care that they are conducting for members of the Chilean Health Service. This was a project that started as a joint effort between Michael Valdes Scott from Canning House, Dr. Dhaliwal from Warwick University and ourselves in 2004, and that has led to a consecutive award from Warwick University of the international internships on primary care from the Chilean Ministry of Health.  This internship scheme is a unique mix since it is taught entirely in Spanish - a first for any UK based Management course - and at the same time it supports Chilean Healthcare reform through a strong emphasis on primary care which is an area where the UK has built great expertise.

I also received a very supportive email from Paul Willets Director - Healthcare Development at Ryder HKS who has also been working at the National Health Service in the UK for over 30 years with specific expertise in PPP/PFI hospital procurements. We have been helping Ryder HKS through the OMIS system and I arranged and accompanied them to meetings with the companies that prequalified at the first PPP hospital infrastructure tender in Chile. As a follow up we included a visit to Ryder HKS in the UK by a group of Chilean architects that visited London this week, which was led by Monica Eggers from our commercial team. The exercise has proved very successful so far and we are confident that it will lead to business opportunities for Ryder HKS, specially since they are open to exchange knowledge and expertise with the Chilean architects.

Posted at 18:27 14 November 2007 by Maria Pia Gazzella  |