Anne has a wealth of experience in mobilising healthcare units that generate maximum value for the budgets allocated. In this assignment, she was engaged to mobilise a new-build private hospital project just six months before the doors were due to open.
The hospital was “over specified”, unstaffed and had no corporate or clinical policies in place. It also had no equipment or operational budgets.
Anne immediately put all the standard operational policies in place, writing many of them herself, and led the recruitment of over 50 staff. She also worked on business development and relationship building with the local NHS commissioners and SHA. The management of a new private hospital from start up (with an established competitor network hospital close by) was no easy task. Yet, through commercial understanding and persistence, she secured several large lucrative contracts.
Anne oversaw every aspect of this hospital’s commissioning, including equipment procurement, registration with regulatory bodies and contract negotiation. She managed stakeholders throughout the organisation and dealt with board confrontation arising from unrealistic expectations that were set before her arrival. Nevertheless, the hospital was ready on time and to budget, and generated £4 million in its first full year of trading.
This is what a board member on another equally challenging assignment had to say about her: “Anne is a very capable professional. She knows about service development, managing and negotiating contracts and services, as well as getting the right tenders in.”
