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Moving Forward. Joanna Woolf Chief Executive Officer, Cogent SSC. Life Sciences Skills Action Plan. Develop One Voice on Skills Leadership through Life Sciences Skills Strategy Board LSSB Delivery of Solutions through Life Sciences Advisory Council LAC
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Moving Forward Joanna WoolfChief Executive Officer, Cogent SSC
Life Sciences Skills Action Plan • Develop One Voice on Skills • Leadership through Life Sciences Skills Strategy Board LSSB • Delivery of Solutions through Life Sciences Advisory Council LAC • Ensure skills are not a bottleneck for growth
Membership of LSSB Chris Brinsmead BIS Mary Baker European Brain Council Viggo Birch Novo Nordisk Carol Black Department for Work and Pensions Tony Bradshaw BioIndustry Association David Brennan Astra Zeneca Judy Britton BIS Nigel Brooksby Nigel Brooksby Aisling Burnand Cancer Research UK William Castell Wellcome Trust David Coates University of Dundee Sally Davies Department for Health Lesley Earl Huntingdon Life Sciences Lesley Galloway Ethical Medicines Industry Group Nigel Gaymond BioIndustry Association Dennis Gillings Quintiles Eddie Gray GlaxoSmithKline Susan Haird UK Trade & Investment Richard Hobbs University of Birmingham Andrew Jack Financial Times Allison Jeynes-Ellis The Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry Trevor Jones Merlin Bioscience Haruo Naito Eisai Europe Limited Una O'Brien Department for Health Neil Poulter Imperial College James Sawyer Prism Fran Sivers Primary Care Cardiovascular Society Tom Underwood Alere Technologies Ltd Oliver Wells Association of British Healthcare Industries
Consultation on Action Plan • First LAC discussion 2nd December • OLS engagement in concept of a Skills Action Plan • Action Plan circulated to the LAC 12th April • Comments received and Action Plan revised • Action Plan presented to members of the LSSB 27th April • Comments received • Action Plan revised and recirculated to LAC 2nd June • Action Plan included in delegate packs for LAC meeting 3rd June • Final comments needed by 17th June • Publication week commencing 20th June
Working Together • We are working with: • The Society of biology on the Accreditation Programme • Lantra on In-Vivo skills • The CRO’s on developing a Higher Level Apprenticeship for Life sciences • The BIA/EMIG/ABPI on developing an offer for SME’s
Focus for Today • The Action Plan has been developed over the last 6 months • Commit to publication week commencing 20th June • Focus on developing solutions to take forward • Organised the workshops into 4 cross cutting potential solutions • Placements • Occupational Standards for Professionals • SME’s • Apprenticeships • Need to consider other potential priority solutions • Agree sub groups to develop the solutions