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Health CEOs’ Club Dinner
CEO members participated in a Schwartz-style Round session in which members talked about cases that haven’t gone so well, mistakes made, decisions that proved wrong and what members learnt from this. Please visit the Point of Care Foundation site for more on Schwartz Rounds.
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The Club Meets Again
And so, in 2016, the club will once again host regular meetings. Open to current and former CEO’s in healthcare organisations, you can register for your place here.
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Women Granted Membership
Members accepted that they must change with the changing times and, to their eternal credit, agreed in the early 1980s to the acceptance of women as members, speakers and guests. The official reception held on Thursday, 21st March 1985, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Club was, in consequence, most apposite…
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Criteria for Membership
The ‘three years as a principal administrator’ qualification was introduced in 1921, and in 1926 a principal administrator entitled to be considered for membership of the Club was defined as ‘an officer directly responsible to the governing body for the administration of the hospital and representing the governing body in its absence’.
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After Dinner Speakers
Minutes record the first of a series of guest speakers, eminent in the hospital world, who were to include in due course at each February meeting, such members of the peerage as the Earl of Arran, Viscounts Hambleden and Knutsford, and Lord Riddell. In addition, as the minutes clearly disclose, the Club meetings of the…
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Club Impedimenta
In 1896 the camaraderie and general bonhomie of Club dinners were undoubtedly enhanced by the acquisition of two pieces of impedimenta – a Loving Cup and a ballot box. On 2nd March a ‘2 handle Irish silver cup and pedestal’ was purchased from Messrs Chapple & Mantell, 32 Strand, WC, for £15 plus 25 shillings…
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Meetings To Take Place In Hospitals
The decision that it should be so was taken in 1952, and prior to that, while the special, usually non-dining meetings tended to be in hospitals, the three ordinary dinner meetings each year were not unexpectedly held in institutions dedicated to gastronomy rather than to healing.
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The Club is Founded
At St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London’s West Smithfield, nine gentlemen administrators, from some of the oldest and most eminent voluntary hospitals in the metropolis, met to found the Hospital Officers’ Club. With Dr J C Steele (Guy’s) in the Chair, and on the proposition of Mr W H Cross (Bart’s), seconded by Mr W J…