The Team – NHS
Mary Corridan
Managing Director
Mary Corridan became Managing Director and majority shareholder of HealthHarmonie in March 2007 following departure of the original founder and principal shareholder.
HealthHarmonie was a private patient menopause and gynaecology centre when Mary took over the lead, she quickly expanded these services and opened pregnancy scanning, fertility and treatment of varicose veins services.
In 2008 HealthHarmonie secured new NHS contracts in 2008 and 2009 which put business on a much stronger financial footing and turnover growth of almost 100% in the year ended 31 March 2010.
The business is now a close knit team of almost 30 medical professional, managerial and support staff and has invested in new IT and other systems in 2009 and 2010. After making significant losses since formation in [2003], the business was profitable and cash positive for the first time by March 2010
Previously Mary founded and was MD of BML Medical Recruitment Consultants, a successful medical recruitment agency with a turn over of £3.5million. The business was sold in April 2003. Mary consistently won tenders to supply Junior Doctors in the West Midlands, North West, and Wales and expanded the business to supply other areas throughout the UK. She spearheaded recruitment campaigns throughout Europe, South Africa, USA, Australia and New Zealand and established joint ventures with American specialist head-hunters to recruit and supply healthcare staff for US market. Third party agreements to supply all types and levels of healthcare staff to the Middle East and new departments were founded to recruit temporary consultants to supply Health Board Hospitals across Ireland.
Joe Jordan
MD FRCOG FRCPI (Hon)
Consultant Gynaecologist and HealthHarmonie’s Medical Director
Mr Joe Jordan leads our Gynaecology service and is a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was a founder member of HealthHarmonie and is our Medical Director, he works closely with the service leads is all aspects of clinical governance.
Joe was a Consultant Gynaecologist at The Birmingham Women’s Hospital until 2002 and Medical Director of The Birmingham Women’s Hospital Trust from 1985 until 2002. He is an internationally known specialist in his field and supported the foundation in the first NHS Menopause Clinic established at The Birmingham Women’s Hospital in 1972. Since 1966 he has worked to develop colposcopy, a technique used to support the cervical smear programme for the prevention of cancer of the cervix.
Joe was founder President of the British Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (1976-78), President of the International Federation for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy (1978-81) and founder President of the European Federation for Colposcopy (1999-2004).
Patrick Corridan
FRCS FRCOphth
Consultant Ophthalmologist
Mr Patrick Corridan leads our Ophthalmology service. He is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and Lead Glaucoma subspecialist at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. He is Chairman of Ophthalmologist Medical Staff Committee.
Patrick has a private Ophthalmology practices in Wolverhampton and Sutton Coldfield. He is a past president and board member of the Midland Ophthalmology Society, and is a member of the Royal College of Ophthalmology, the Midland Glaucoma Society, the British Medical Association and the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Dr Paul Crowe
MA MB BCh BAO FFRRSCI FRCR
Consultant Interventional Radiologist
Dr Paul Crowe leads the ultrasound service with Dr Mojisola Balogun. He is a Consultant Interventional Radiologist at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital; and a fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR) and of the Faculty of Radiologists of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (FFRRCSI). He is a member of the British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR), the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) and The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR, USA).
He has special interests in vascular and urological radiology and uterine artery embolisation for fibroids as well as a wide range of minimally invasive interventional radiology procedures for both NHS and private patients.
Dr Mojisola Balogun
MRCP FRCR
Consultant Radiologist
Dr Balogun leads the ultrasound service with Dr Paul Crowe. She is a Consultant Radiologist who specialises in gynaecology and neonatology at The Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust and was appointed this position in 2001.
Dr Balogun is the lead Radiologist for gynaecology and oncology and coordinates the activities of the Gynaecology Imaging Focus Group of the West Midlands which aims to improve NHS gynaecological imaging services and standards throughout the West Midlands region.
Andy Pearson
FCA, BSc (Hons)
Finance
Andy Pearson is Healthharmonie’s finance advisor and is a former partner with KPMG in Birmingham leading its due diligence team in the Midlands and leading work on over 100 transactions. After a 26 year career with KPMG Andy now works with a number of companies on consultancy or non executive director basis.
Kate O’Keeffe
Operations Manager, HealthHarmonie Limited
Kate O’Keeffe joined HealthHarmonie in 2006 and is an experienced manager whose prime responsibilities are to:
- project manage the setting up and ongoing monitoring of new services introduced to HealthHarmonie for NHS contracts and private services
- ensure compliance with the Care Quality Commission’s ‘Essential standards of quality and safety’
- develop and monitor the training and development plan for HealthHarmonie and to coach individuals where new services are introduced
- provide support to the Managing Director to meet HealthHarmonie’s business aims and objectives
- work with the Managing Director on HealthHarmonie’s PR and marketing plan
Kate had 25 years management experience in a global banking plc before working for Healthharmonie.