Want expert guidance on how to get your medical device adopted into the NHS? Don’t miss the latest session in our series of events organised in partnership with CHEATA, taking place in person at Charnwood Campus on Thursday 20th October. Our panel brings together leaders from across the NHS, including:
- Natasha Brown, Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) Procurement
- Professor Dan Clark OBE, Head of Clinical Engineering for NUH
- Simon Hall, National Clinical Engagement and Implementation Manager, NHS Supply Chain
- Dr Sarah Bolton, Business Manager, CHEATA
This is your opportunity to gain insight from those involved with all stages of the adoption process, and will include ample time to pose your own questions to the panel.
Speaker profiles
Dr Sarah Bolton, Business Manager, CHEATA
Sarah has been the Business Manager for CHEATA since August 2016. Prior to joining CHEATA, Sarah was responsible for Healthcare and Medical Devices at Pera Technology, a role which included project delivery, client engagement and management, project planning and management as well as bid writing for major UK and EC funding bodies. Sarah is an experienced research scientist with a background in academic and clinical inflammation research where she undertook her post-doctoral studies on inflammatory mechanisms in the brain and activation mechanisms of eosinophils in asthma. She joined AstraZeneca in 2004 as an Experimental Pathologist in the Respiratory and Inflammation Therapy area, specialising in translation pathology of COPD and asthma. After leaving AZ, Sarah worked as an independent consultant continuing the experimental pathology work for a range of academic and commercial clients.
This free-to-attend event is held as part of the INSTILS programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project.
Professor Dan Clark OBE, Head of Clinical Engineering, Nottingham University Hospitals & Director, CHEATA
Dan leads the Clinical Engineering service at Nottingham University Hospitals, one of the largest in Europe, which provides the full scope of equipment services including: device evaluation, commissioning, service and maintenance, decommissioning and disposal. He has considerable experience of evaluating new technologies and medical devices and introducing them into the healthcare setting. Dan also holds an honorary chair in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham and is co-director of the Centre for Healthcare Technologies, a unique collaborative venture between Nottingham University and NUH NHS Trust specialising in the acceleration of curiosity driven science into adopted medical technology. He also chairs the NUH NHS Trust’s Medical Devices Group and sits on a number of trust-wide risk committees. Finally, Dan was an expert member of the NICE Medical Technology Advisory Committee (MTAC) for 10 years until his “retirement” from the committee in 2019. Dan is a director and founder member of CHEATA since its inception in late 2014. Dan was awarded an OBE for Services to Clinical Engineering particularly during Covid-19 in the 2021 New Years Honours.
Simon Hall, National Clinical Lead, NHS Supply Chain
Originally working in urology in London, Simon has spent the majority of his nursing career in community services. Returning to acute care, he became lead nurse for tissue viability at University Hospitals Bristol (UHB), wining the trust’s rising star award for service improvement.
Simon was seconded to work in the Department of Health to establish if clinical input positively impacted the procurement of healthcare products. He returned to UHB as Deputy Head of Nursing, before joining CPP as the National Clinical Lead for Tower 5 within NHS Supply Chain.
Natasha Brown, Deputy Head of Procurement, Nottingham University Hospitals
Natasha has a wealth of public sector procurement experience and hold the procurement and supply chain industry qualification (MCIPS). Natasha holds a Law degree which has provided a solid foundation into the procurement and supply chain profession, and her experience includes procurement within local authorities, universities and housing associations as well as the NHS.
Please note: whilst this event is held as part of the INSTILS programme, attendance is not restricted to the region and is open to all.