Welcome to the Institute of Healthcare Management
IHM is the Professional organisation for managers throughout healthcare, including: the NHS; Independent Providers; Healthcare Consultants and the Armed Forces.
The IHM’s focus is improving patient/user care wherever and whenever they need healthcare, the route to achieving this is through the promotion of excellence in healthcare management. We achieve this by:
- Publishing standards of management practice
- Promoting the IHM Code (covering behavioural and ethical aspects of management practice)
- Establishing a Continuous Development framework
- Promoting CPD and moving towards implementing a CPD validation mechanism
- Holding CPD events in the four UK countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- Establishing a coaches database to support members when they choose an executive coach
The IHM is influential – it has access to the highest offices of the NHS, many of the senior players in the NHS are members and, more importantly, by promoting CPD we influence the management practice of thousands of managers.
The IHM is developing its educational portfolio and has developed a number of products – such as our Milestones programmes. You will find more information about our educational products on our website.
Occasionally our members need personal support, the IHM has a range of approaches, including:
- Arranging mentors
- The IHM helpline
- Some personal support during difficult times
President
Stuart Bain formerly chair of the IHM Scotland, has taken over as President of the Institute of Healthcare Management. He succeeds Gerry McSorley, whose term has now been completed.
Speaking of his role within the Institute, Stuart, who is now Chief Executive of East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said:
“It is a great honour to have been asked by fellow members to succeed Gerry McSorley who has been an outstanding President.
The healthcare sector is facing challenges on all sides requiring the traditional role of the professional manager to be redefined. The Institute, with its wealth of experience in devising packages of tailored professional development, is ideally placed to support healthcare managers to meet the changes needed to deliver first class patient services. I am proud to have been asked by my peers to be their President.”
Chair
Andrew Corbett-Nolan has taken over as Chair of the Institute of Healthcare Management. He succeeds Phil Milligan, whose term has now been completed.
Speaking of his role within the Institute, Andrew Corbett-Nolan, said:
"As a member of the Institute for around fifteen years and a board member over the last year, it's an interesting time to be able to make this contribution to our professional body.
Andrew has been 'acting chair' from December 2008. During that time he was asked to build on the good work of the past, but in particular to:
1) Ensure the Institute's income and expenditure budgets stay in course - meat and bread to any healthcare manager!
2) Become more involved with the Regions - much of the life and blood of the Institute comes through the Regions' enthusiasm and hard work, and our Regional structure remains a critical USP for the Institute
3) Build partnerships and linkages that will help deliver for our members - again second nature to any healthcare manager is achieving results through working with others
It will be a pleasure to be working with the Sue Hodgetts and the team at IHM HQ in London, and with Stuart Bain, our new President and Malcolm Wright, the new IHM Vice Chair.
To tell you a little about myself I've been a healthcare manager for 20 years last year. I now work as Head of Governance and Caldicott Guardian at Humana Europe, and also am a non-executive director of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Overall, I've worked in the NHS, not-for-profit and private sectors. I started my career in the management accounts department at Hastings Health Authority and have since then held local, regional, national and international management posts in the UK, USA and South Africa.
Working in healthcare has been a great career for me, and I'd recommend this sector as interesting, complex and it matters too. As a healthcare manager you'll work with inspiring, difficult but never dull colleagues. You'll make a difference to the lives of many people, and leave a legacy for the community you work in. Whether you role is managing facilities, dealing with finance, steering operations or guiding policy your contribution will really matter. And if you can manage in health you'll have proven you can manage in one of the fastest moving, politically sensitive management environments globally today.
Finally, I've always believed in the importance of individual actions.
Everyone from ward clerk to CEO, from pathology manager to outreach worker, from commissioning manager to health and safety advisor can make a difference at work today to the lives of vulnerable people - people like your family, neighbours and work colleagues who find themselves dependent on our healthcare system. You can make a difference also to your own profession. Just each week do something for the IHM. Keep your PDP file up to date. Recruit a new member. Go to one of our educational seminars. But please just choose to do something. Achievement comes from deeds after all! Have a great 2008"
Vice Chair
Malcolm Wright OBE, Chief Executive for NHS Education for Scotland, has agreed to join the IHM Board as Vice Chair. Malcolm brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the board that will support our future direction.
Appointed Chief Executive of NHS Education for Scotland in April 2004, Malcolm has spent his career in the National Health Service, specialising latterly in the management of Child Health Services.
He has a particular interest in development and leadership issues and attended the Kings' Fund Senior Management Programme, the Leadership at the Peak Programme at the Centre of Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs, the Windsor Leadership Trust and the Tavistock Institute.
He is currently undertaking the National School of Government Top Management Programme. Malcolm is Chair of the Ministerial Children and Young People’s Health Support Group in Scotland, Chair of the Ministerial Review of Specialist Services for Children in Scotland, and Chair of the Scottish Government Task Group on Building Parenting and Family Capacity. He is also Chair of the Institute of Healthcare Management, Scottish Division.
Chief Executive
Susan Hodgetts MIHM MBA BEd MEd
Our Direction of Travel
The last year has seen a rigorous scrutiny of the organisation resulting in a restructure of Headquarters from 12 to 8 staff- a leaner and more focussed core team.
We have been working to a business plan that has been concentrating on implementing a new Governance structure and building the foundations for a future application for Chartered Status; stabilising our membership; reviewing the benefits for membership and focussing on developing what members want out of their membership; consolidating and delivering education and training opportunities for members and non members; raising the profile of IHM in the political arena and developing a strategy that will ensure the sustainability of the organisation for the future.
Headquarters will now focus on looking outwards from the centre, responding and working proactively with the Divisions and Regions to substantiate local, regional and national IHM activities for the benefit of members, enabling them to consolidate and evidence the professional status of the healthcare manager.
Following feedback from members we are reviewing the quality of employment, professional and personal support. We are piloting an on line CPD tool to enable members to record, reflect on and access appropriate Continuous Professional Development episodes and we are consolidating a suite of education and training opportunities that will support members through their career pathway.
Healthcare managers make an invaluable contribution to today’s healthcare service IHM can support the development of individuals, teams and organisations in an ever changing and challenging environment.
