KFM partners with Royal Holloway University to tackle NHS challenges

KFM has formed a partnership with the School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway, University of London. This alliance offers a work experience programme allowing students to work on real-world NHS challenges, including those within supply chain, managed services, and the technology and transformation areas.

Students will greatly enhance their employability, their practical and analytical skills through this experience. They will be presented with a variety of challenging business scenarios. They will be urged to gain a thorough grasp of the business area they’ll operate within, to then propose unique and inventive suggestions for improvement, and (if the solution is selected) to collaborate with KFM in fully implementing the business remedy to the original challenge. Seeing their idea realise real tangible benefits for the NHS!

Professor Gloria Agyemang, Head of the School of Business and Management, said: "The new internships at KFM, a wholly owned subsidiary of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, are a unique opportunity for School of Business and Management students to boost their skills, experience, and future employability. We are pleased to work on an initiative that offers training, the solving of real-life management problems, and the chance for Royal Holloway to contribute to a public service as important as the NHS. Over the next year, we hope to continue to build on this close partnership working with KFM."

KFM recently met with students and academics to discuss the programme, which begins with student selection and recruitment taking place in December. It’s the start of an exciting journey!