Partners

Bon Secours Health System

The Bon Secours Health System is Irelands Largest Private Hospital Provider with locations in Kerry, Cork, Limerick, Dublin and Galway with over 3,500 staff and 500 consultants caring for 300,000 patients each year.

The Group has grown steadily over the last decade having reinvested €150m in up-grading and developing its facilities and technologies as part of its ambitious 2020 Plan. The 2025 Plan underpinned by €300m capital investment is now underway and presents the BSHS’s strategic vision of five strategic goals and 15 strategic initiatives. It sets out an ambitious framework of measurable deliverables, based on Resilience, Reliability and Readiness. The plan is premised on an action-oriented commitment to enhance Ireland’s healthcare in partnership with other key stakeholders, including the public system and the Government to tackle national waiting lists for the benefit of all patients. As a not-for-profit organisation, BSHS is focused on reinvesting in staff, infrastructure, facilities and innovative practices to ensure exceptional patient care.

Novartis Ireland

Novartis Ireland Limited is the Irish affiliate of Swiss-based Novartis AG – one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Novartis is one of Ireland’s leading employers in the healthcare industry. One of the first pharmaceutical companies to locate in Ireland in the 1950’s, Novartis has a strong history of investing in Ireland over the last sixty years.

Novartis currently employs approximately 1,400 people across 3 locations in Cork and Dublin. Novartis manufacturing and development is based in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

In March 2013, Novartis announced the establishment of a Global Business Services Centre in Elm Park, Dublin. Novartis Pharmaceuticals is also based in Elm Park and in 2019, Novartis Gene Therapies located to Santry, Co Dublin. Novartis’ nationwide presence and flexible working options means there are Novartis employees based all over Ireland.

Medforce

Medforce (part of the Lincoln Group), dedicates itself to recruiting excellence within the healthcare industry, fulfilling full-time, part-time, contract and agency staffing to public and private organisations across Ireland since 2018.  Medforce recognise the importance of being ahead of the curve when it comes to providing recruiting excellence for the healthcare sector Medforce will exclusively host and sponsor the VIP Conference Dinner at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre on May 24 th in the Higgins Suite.

https://medforce.ie/

Medtronic Ireland

Medtronic is a global healthcare solutions company operating in approximately 160 countries. We are committed to improving lives through our medical technologies, services, and solutions.

Since our beginning, 60 years ago, our Mission has remained the same: to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for people around the world. The Mission is our ethical framework and inspirational goal guiding our day-to-day work. It reminds us that our efforts are transforming millions of lives each year.

To meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals around the globe, we operate from more than 370 locations in approximately 160 countries.

Healthcare is facing immense challenges. From shifting payment models to problems of access, providers and payers are struggling to improve patient outcomes and lower overall costs. While there is no single solution, we recognize that those who deliver care are at the center of this transformation — and that technology can help propel them forward. At Medtronic, we know we don’t have all the answers, but we are committed to partnering with others to take healthcare Further, Together.

With roots in Ireland since 1981, the company now employs more than 4,000 people across five sites in Galway, Dublin and Athlone.

The Parkmore Business Park West facility features a Centre of Excellence for Operations and R&D to support Global Cardiac & Vascular Businesses, as well as a Customer Innovation Centre.  The Mervue operations focus on the development of Respiratory & Monitoring Solutions.  Medtronic Athlone manufactures airways products and also features an R&D Center of Excellence.

Medtronic’s headquarters and principal executive offices are on Hatch Street, Dublin 2 with the Customer Contact Centre in City West housing customer services, sales and marketing functions.

UPMC Ireland

Trusted by millions of patients across the world, UPMC (upmc.ie) operates over 40 hospitals with more than 8,500 beds, 700 doctors’ offices and over 90,000 employees.

UPMC is consistently inventing new models of accountable, cost-effective, patient-centred care and is considered a leading U.S. healthcare provider at the forefront of patient care and medicine innovation.

The academic medical centre provides more than $1.4 billion a year in benefits to the local communities being served in the U.S. and this community giving will be continued in Ireland, Italy, and China.

Blackrock Health

Blackrock Health is Ireland’s newest hospital group. We are made up of three of Ireland’s leading private hospitals, Blackrock Clinic, Galway Clinic and Hermitage Clinic and a diagnostic clinic in Limerick. Blackrock Health employs more than 2,800 staff and we work with in excess of 600 consultants across 60 specialist areas. Together, our hospitals have a total of 450 inpatient beds including 28 ICU beds and 24 operating theatres, with expansion planned for the near future.

Each of our hospitals delivers world-class clinical care and world-class comfort to our privately insured and self-paying patients. Together, we cared for more than 225,000 patients last year. Blackrock Health’s hospitals have built strong reputations for delivering excellence in clinical care and a personal, patient centred approach with access to cutting edge treatments and technology in modern facilities.

We offer a full range of services in our conveniently located hospitals where our focus is on putting our patients first.

Founded as the national training body for surgery in Ireland, RCSI has been at the forefront of healthcare education since its establishment in 1784. Today, we are an innovative, world-leading international health sciences university and research institution offering education and training at Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Professional level.

Smith+Nephew is a portfolio medical technology company focused on the repair, regeneration and replacement of soft and hard tissue. Smith+Nephew exists to restore peoples bodies and their self-belief by using technology to take the limits off living.

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP is an award-winning business law firm employing over 570 staff including 108 partners, with offices in Dublin, New York, San Francisco and London. The firm has the largest healthcare legal team in Ireland and its lawyers, with backgrounds in industry, science and medicine, have profound knowledge and experience in the sector.

Mowlam Healthcare is an Irish-owned national healthcare leader, prioritising excellence: in clinical care, in our staff, in our services and in our facilities, and improving the health outcomes for the older people in our care.

https://www.mowlamhealthcare.com/

TeleTracking

TeleTracking is a healthcare software company that specializes in Patient Flow Command Centres, capacity management and data analytics solutions.

For over three decades, TeleTracking has worked with health systems across the world to enable better patient flow and capacity planning by combining people, process and technology to deliver sustainable operational efficiencies.

TeleTracking works with over 1,100 health systems across the UK, US and Canada and is the market leader in Patient Flow Command Centres with over 100 Command Centres. These centralised coordination centres provide real time data and transparency across all wards and departments, automating processes and empowering staff to make the best use of the tools available. While these centralised Coordination Centres vary in shape and size, they allow hospitals to become even more responsive to pressures by strengthening operational decision making and capacity planning whilst removing manual paper based processes.

Comfort Keepers

Every person has an inner spark. It’s something age and illness cannot take away. At Comfort Keepers, we go beyond daily care needs to nurture those unique qualities and bring about a sense of hope, connectedness, purpose, and most importantly, joy. From 1 hour of care per week to 24/7 complex care, Comfort Keepers’ clinically-led team have got your care needs covered.

PwC
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We’re a network of firms in 155 countries with over 327,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in advisory, assurance, and tax services. Globally, PwC has one of the largest health industry networks, leveraged by our PwC Ireland Healthcare Team to drive innovation and bring best in class outcomes to our clients in Ireland.
PwC has one of the largest healthcare advisory practices in Ireland. We bring a multidisciplinary team of healthcare specialists to support clients across Healthcare organisations and systems to deliver on their strategies and deliver outcomes. Over the last eight years we have supported a wide range of clients in the Irish healthcare system on a significant number of large scale, highly complex transformation programmes. Programmes have included technology and data enabled transformation, operating model and organisational change, service redesign, strategy development and implementation, performance improvement and change management programmes.
Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.ie

Investnet Events

Investnet is a specialist in bespoke event Creation and management, as well as consultancy in the Healthcare, Finance, Legal & Human Resources sectors. We manage and create our own Conferences, as well as devising and handling successful concentrated client events.

​Working with industry stakeholders we specialise in developing and producing focused events based around stakeholder needs, market objectives and networks. We are uniquely placed to operate and develop a sustainable and successful template for any company’s conference or event. For over 20 years Investnet has created, produced and managed a full range of client and proprietary events, meetings, and conference titles. The result of our high standards of service has resulted in our broad range of customers returning to our company year on year. No other production company has the breadth of local and international contacts, experience, client base and sector knowledge to make any conference or event, a unique experience and success.

In our suite of events at present, we run and manage the internationally renowned Future Health Summit, Your People Summit, Finance Leadership Summit, Legal Leadership Summit, Invest in Care in Ireland Summit and the Healthcare Leadership Series. We also manage customised events for Bon Secours Hospital System, Saolta Care Group and University Hospital Limerick. Further, we create bespoke events for corporate clients, such as Novartis Pharma, numerous Embassies and KPMG to name a few.

From a consultancy point of view, Investnet offers a market access service as an expert in the Healthcare industry, given our wide breadth of local and international contacts. The effect of our quality service has resulted in the high retention of customers, multiple corporate referrals and leading to Investnet being requested to host numerous new internationally attended conferences and events.