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Health Economics Group (HEG)
Minutes from the HEG meeting
Date of Meeting: -
Wednesday 16th September 2015
Time: -
14.00- 16.00 hrs
Attendees:
Dr Bridget Juniper (Work
and Wellbeing)
Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald
(RSSB)
Elise Weeder (ORR)
Mike Tyler (Lockton)
Alex Bobocica (ORR)
Nayia Solea (Siemens)
Paul Whitehead (Balfour
Beatty)
Tanya Stacey (East
Midland Trains)
Veronica Robbins (Costain) Darryl Hopper (RSSB)
Apologies:
Victoria Ward (Network
Rail)
Cathy Murphy (Mersey Rail)
Stuart Parsons (Southern)
Agenda item
Discussion
Welcome and introductions
Tanya and Veronica were
welcomed as new members to the
group.
Appointment of Chair
The group to decide on new
Now that Chris Jones has left
Chair of the group at the next
Network Rail he is unable to
continue in his role as Chair for the meeting
HEG. Victoria Ward will attend from
Network Rail but not in the role as
Chair.
Updates on HWPG
DH updated the Economics group
on the discussions of the recent
Health and Wellbeing Policy
Group.
Action
A copy of the stakeholder map
to be sent to the HEG as well as
the HWPG when it is completed
Of note was a request from the
group for a stakeholder map
showing what HWB work is being
carried out within the industry and
where the group sits in relation to
these activities.
A copy of project updates to be
sent to the group
The HWB conference to be held on
Tuesday 3rd November was briefly
discussed. All HEG members
DH/ SF to ensure all HEG
members are on the conference
invite list.
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Health Economics Group (HEG)
should have received a ‘save the
date’ but some hadn’t.
Update on deliverables:
1) Health indicators
The group discussed what we want
to have at the conference e.g.
stand for the CBA tool/ people can
sign up to projects etc.
The health indicators sub group
had met a number of times to
develop this task and the group’s
presentation was discussed.
DH highlighted that indicators are
open to improvement as more input
is sought from industry but the
process and methodology are
sound and so the progress made
by the group will not be lost.
A stand is to be made available
to demonstrate the CBA tool
Need to start challenging some
of the definitions in the table and
hold a conference call with the
sub group – arrange the
conference call to discuss this
further.
Once Andrea Bafni (Health Data
user Requirements) has done
her work then DH will feed that
back to the group for it to be
validated and to discuss how it
A question was put to the group: do complements the work of the
we want to keep the indicators
HEG.
within the health risk management
‘bucket’ that holds the indicators?
Rail professionals present felt that
in general the indicators were
useful but that the indicator
‘Number of risk assessments
reviewed/created’ could be
removed.
It was recognised that the
definitions and descriptors in the
indicators tables need to be
discussed at the next sub group
meeting.
Update on deliverables:
As the tool is almost complete the
sub group is now thinking about
ways to promote the tool.
2) ROI Tool
Thoughts included:
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A stand at the conference
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Workshops
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Engaging specific groups
within industry including
health champions etc. that
we could use to promote
the tool and the way that it
can help industry

Internal opportunities within
the group to promote this
A question for the sub group is can we road test this a bit with
Balfour? Can we remove the rail
specific elements in order to
pilot it more widely- would give
feedback on the tool itself rather
than the rail specific elements.
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tool and expand the use
within their company
Update on deliverables:
3) Evaluation study
Forward look ahead
It was stated that this promotional
phase could sit within the sub
group for a while and then pass
onto RSSB to continue the work
DH provided an update on the
project.
RSSB would pay for the evaluation
but not the health intervention for
the companies. This would give us
some data and info on specific
interventions and tools
Discussions are being held with
potential suppliers. Health
interventions are to be requested
for support.
Within this section the group
looked at other Roadmap initiatives
where HEG evaluation might be
relevant. DH presented two tables
to develop measures for the
roadmap and also projects that are
underway. It was felt by the HEG
that the tables needed to be
considered by the policy group first.
AOB
Tanya and Veronica were asked to
identify which sub groups they are
interested in and both chose the
health indicators sub group
Future meeting dates
December 2nd 2pm-4pm
@RSSB Moorgate
A meeting is to be set up to
understand the supplier
requirements for a project such
as this.
Identify health interventions.
DH asked to pass this table back
to the HWPG to complete
(strategic thinking around the
group and the deliverables etc)
HWPG should look at what does
good look like and what
outcomes they desire. The HEG
will then look at what measures
to use to track this development