University of Salford health chief joins Middle East trade mission
Thursday 22 February 2018
A HEALTH education chief from the University of Salford joined businesses as part of a Northern Powerhouse trade mission aimed at boosting exports to the Middle East.
Susan Buttress, Associate Dean of the University’s School of Health Sciences, was part of a 62 strong delegation to the Arab Health healthcare exhibition in Dubai, the largest gathering of healthcare and trade professionals in the Middle East and North Africa, aimed at developing business and boosting partnerships in the region.
As well as being able to explain the University of Salford’s innovative practices to Lord O’Shaughnessy, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health, who was leading the delegation, Susan also visited a major hospital in Dubai Healthcare City.
She met members of the Dubai Health Authority to talk about how the University is responding to the changing needs of the global health sector, visited Dubai’s University of Sharjah to build a partnership based around recruiting and supervising PhD students, and also met the business manager of education consultants IDP Education.
The delegation was a joint initiative of the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and the Department for International Trade (DIT).
Innovative education and research
This delegation was a wonderful opportunity to tell key figures in the Middle Eastern healthcare sector, as well as in the British governments, about the innovative work we are currently doing.
Susan said: “The University of Salford is one of the largest trainers of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in the North West. This delegation was a wonderful opportunity to tell key figures in the Middle Eastern healthcare sector, as well as in the British governments, about the innovative work we are currently doing, and the potential to collaborate in both research and training.
“The healthcare sector in the Middle East is responding to rapidly growing demands for preventive care, and for effective ways to reduce lifestyle-related diseases and ensure a longer, healthier life for citizens, moving towards specialist, more personalised healthcare with much greater interaction and self-management enabled by the ever-growing potential of digital technology.
“I was able to explain the research we’re carrying out looking into these areas, as well as how we collaborate with a wide range of industry partners across health and social care to produce highly skilled graduates, and how we work with stakeholders across the northern powerhouse to address the health outcomes arising from the Devo Manc agenda.”
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