Robert McIndoe
Robert McIndoe is 'founder and Managing Director' of a marketing agency called The Marketing House[1] and an advisor for Nurse for Reform, a free market lobby group. According to his 'LinkedIn' profile, McIndoe is 'Senior Business Consultant' at Logica (December 2007 — Present); Owner, The Marketing House (February 2001 — Present); 'Principal Consultant' Capita Advisory Services (March 2006 — October 2007); 'Communications Consultant' NHS Connecting for Health (2005 — 2006); 'Stakeholder Management & Communications Team Leader' CSC (2004 — 2005).[2]
According to the Marketing House his past appointments have included 'senior public relations, communications and marketing roles for The Nuffield Trust, Surrey Oaklands NHS Trust, University College London Hospitals, The Royal Hospitals Trust and Hays DX.'[3]
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Education
McIndoe attended the University of St Andrews from 1977-81, a neoliberal training ground in the late 1970s. amongst those attending in the 1970s were Eamonn Butler, Stuart Butler, and Madsen Pirie, all of whom left in 1973 going on, in 1977, to set up the Adam Smith Institute and 'father of the Poll-Tax', Douglas Mason.
McIndoe graduated with an MA Honours in Fine Arts. He notes he was a member of the Mermaids Drama Society, while at St Andrews. He returned to higher education in 1997 undertaking an The Open University degree (MBA , Creativity, Marketing and Finance) between 1997 — 2005 (presumably part time). Though he had b this time made a career in PR and communication in health related industries he took an MA Theatre & Performance Studies, (2006 — 2009) at Rose Bruford College.[4]
Views and activities
McIndoe is an ultra neoliberal who favours an increasing role for the market in the NHS in the UK. His biographical note at The Marketing House notes that and his 'credo' - ‘Marketing is the source of all business’ - 'informs the ethos of the company'.[5]
He is reported to have 'a wealth of experience in developing and implementing internal and external communications strategies, media relations and public relations approaches for a variety of organisations.'[6]
The Marketing House does not, however, mention his role in the highly ideological lobby group Nurses for Reform, where he has been on the advisory board from its early days in 2006. There , his role as a marketing, PR and lobbying expert are not mentioned. Instead his nursing qualification 'RMN' was the sole description next to his name in 2007[7] and by 2010 he is referred to simply as a 'British nurse'.[8]
McIndoe was involved in Nurses For Reform from the early days in 2006. By 2010 it had appointed fellow St Andrews graduate Eamonn Butler as one of its advisors.[9]
Affiliations
Nurses for Reform, Advisory board since 2007[10][11] | The Marketing House 'founder and Managing Director'[12] | Shooting People (Filmaking), The London Actors Workshop, EQUITY member, ASSIST member (NHS & British Computer Society), Institute of Healthcare Management.[13]
Contact, Publications
Contact
- LinkedIn Robert McIndoe
Publications
- Robert McIndoe Time to tear ourselves away from paper, Health Service Journal, 1 January, 2007
Notes
- ↑ The Marketing House Our Team, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ LinkedIn Robert McIndoe, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ The Marketing House Our Team, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ LinkedIn Robert McIndoe, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ The Marketing House Our Team, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ The Marketing House Our Team, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ Nurses For Reform Advisory board, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 14 January 2007, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ Nurses For Reform Advisory board, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ Nurses For Reform Advisory board, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ Nurses For Reform Advisory board, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 14 January 2007, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ Nurses For Reform Advisory board, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ The Marketing House Our Team, accessed 10 January 2010
- ↑ LinkedIn Robert McIndoe, accessed 10 January 2010
