AXREM<\/a> hosted more than 60 key industry female opinion leaders and key stakeholders.<\/p>\nThere was a full programme of speakers including an actor as Florence Nightingale talking about her work, a video address from Baroness Merron, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health at the Department of Health & Social Care; Preeya Bailie Director of Central Commercial Function, Commercial Directorate at NHS England; Saduf Ali-Drakesmith, Head of Sales at Smart Reporting & Vice Convenor of the Imaging IT SFG; Yasmeen Mahmoud, Business Manager HPM UKI at Philips Healthcare; and Kath Halliday, President of the Royal College of Radiologists.<\/p>\n
Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards. Nightingale gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of “The Lady with the Lamp” making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.<\/p>\n
Sally Edgington, AXREM Chief Executive Officer said in her speech: \u201cwe have gathered to celebrate the strength, resilience, and brilliance of women in our industry. I am a female leader and currently lead a fabulous all female team, I am biased\u2026 but they really are all inspirational, supportive and hard working women and I feel truly blessed to work alongside each of them.<\/p>\n
International Women’s Day is not just a day to acknowledge the progress we’ve made, but a day to remind ourselves of the work that still lies ahead. It\u2019s a day to honour the trailblazers, the changemakers, and the unsung heroes who have shaped history and continue to inspire us all today. There are many of these women within our sector and AXREM membership\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sally ended her speech by saying: \u201cWhen women rise, society rises with them. We all benefit when women are empowered, when they are given the tools, the respect, and the opportunity to lead, create, and flourish.<\/em><\/p>\nSo, to all the women here tonight, to those who inspire us from afar, and to the generations of women who will come after us:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nKeep pushing boundaries.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nKeep dreaming big.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nKeep shining your light.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nThe world is better because of all of us\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nReflecting on the event, Sally Edgington said: \u201cIt was a fabulous evening where we were able to bring together some thought leaders from our industry, it was also an evening where we could announce an AXREM Women\u2019s network, This will further build on the important work AXREM has done over the last few years to really champion women in our industry and female leaders, so I am excited to launch this initiative and see how we can work with our members and stakeholders to develop this.”<\/em><\/p>\nHuw Shurmer, AXREM Chair & Strategic and Government Relationship Manager at Fujifilm Healthcare UK, said: \u201cI was honoured to attend this event represented by so many strong women working in our industry. The speakers provided thought provoking content which gave me a different perspective on how far we have come, and how far there is still to go. I am looking forward to seeing the development of an AXREM Women\u2019s Network to provide an industry forum and platform.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AXREM, the trade association representing the suppliers of diagnostic medical imaging, radiotherapy, healthcare IT and care equipment in the UK held an event to mark International Women\u2019s Day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":5993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-workforce"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}