Keith Pollard

Managing Director

Intuition Communication Ltd

Keith Pollard is Managing Director of Intuition Communication, an online publisher in the healthcare sector that operates market-leading web portals such as Private Healthcare UK, Surgery Door, the Harley Street Guide, and medical tourism sites such as Treatment Abroad. Intuition also publishes IMTJ – International Medical Travel Journal - an online business to business resource for the medical travel and medical tourism markets.

Keith is one of Europe’s leading experts on medical tourism. His company has initiated a Code of Practice for Medical Tourism and has sponsored research into various aspects of medical travel.

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Rob Dickman
Senior Policy Manager
Department of Health

Currently working in a small policy delivery team responsible for the UK/HMG response to a proposed European Directive on patient mobility and cross-border healthcare within the European Union/EEA, his key focus is assessing the implications for the UK of implementing a final Directive - and in developing coherent arrangements for the NHS in delivering its obligations in this area.

Rob is a career civil servant with over 25 years experience across the Department of Health and central Government, within a range of different policy and strategy environments at national level – including EU and international health policy, standards within the pharmaceutical industry, policy on disabled children/children’s services and social care regulation.

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Sales & Marketing Director

Intuition Communication

Philip Archbold is Sales & Marketing Director of Intuition Communication, an online publisher in the healthcare sector that operates the market-leading medical tourism site Treatment Abroad (www.treatmentabroad.com). They also run the International Medical Travel Journal (www.imtj.com) - an online business to business resource for the medical travel and Doctor Internet (www.doctorinternet.info) – a portal fro Arabic patients looking for treatment outside of their home country.

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Cheif Executive
Euromedical Tours

My short bio is as follows: “Zahid Hamid is a Management Consultant with over thirty years of experience in the public and private sectors. He managed two software houses listed on the London Stock Exchange before committing himself to the healthcare sector in 2004. He presently heads an outbound facilitation service to Europe and South Asia – www.euromedicaltours.com- and an inbound and intra bound service to the UK – www.rightchoiceuk.com. He is a regular speaker on issues of topical import at healthcare travel industry events”

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Head of the Clinical Negligence team.

Michelmores Solicitors LLP

Laurence is Head of the Clinical Negligence team.

He specialises in paediatric/adult cardiac surgery, birth injuries - cerebral and Erb's palsy, gynaecology, spinal and plastic/cosmetic surgery, neurological injury.

He was lead solicitor to Bristol Heart Children Action Group at Bristol Royal Infirmary Public Inquiry, also handling related fatal and brain damage claims with significant PTSD, consent, exemplary/aggravated damages, "corporate failure", increased risk issues.

Legal Adviser to Constructive Dialogue for Clinical Accountability (CDCA).

Memberships:

AVMA referral panel, member and assessor Law Society's Clinical Negligence Panel, ATLA, APIL, Associate of Chartered Insurance Institute and Chartered Insurance Practitioner (1999).

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Alison Hope

Managing Director

Visit Poland Ltd

Alison Hope has been championing Poland as a destination for medical tourism for several years and has first-hand experience of working with patients who have opted to travel to Poland for their procedure. She has also consulted private clinics, advising them on how to promote themselves in the United Kingdom and ensuring that they meet the expectations of patients from the United Kingdom.

Alison Hope is a Director of Visit Poland Ltd, a specialist marketing consultancy that works with stakeholders in Poland’s tourism industry, helping them to raise their profile in the United Kingdom and Ireland. For further information, visit www.visit-poland.org.uk

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