|
|
Confirmed Speakers
Dr Donald Berwick
Dr Donald Berwick,
President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge
(USA), will give the John Hunt Lecture as part of the conference
programme. Dr Berwick is one of America's leading patient safety
advocates. A clinical professor of paediatrics and health
care policy at Harvard Medical School, Dr Berwick has been ranked
as the third most powerful American in health care - behind Bill
Gates and ahead of President Bush.
Professor Lord Darzi
Professor Lord Darzi of Denham KBE,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health, will give a
Ministerial address on Thursday 2 October. This will be
followed by a discussion session with the RCGP Chair, Professor
Steve Field and an open Q&A session from the floor.
Professor Allyson Pollock
Professor Allyson Pollock,
Edinburgh, will be delivering a presentation comparing the
economics of different models of practice.
Fergus Walsh
 Fergus
Walsh has been a
correspondent for the BBC for more than twenty years and his
reports appear regularly on the main TV and radio news programmes
and online. As medical correspondent he covers a wide range
of stories looking at issues as diverse as obesity, hybrid
embryos, global disease threats, and the future
direction of the NHS. In the past year he has reported
from France on why cancer survival rates there are better than
those in Britain, from Sierra Leone and Sweden on child and
maternal mortality, and from South Africa on TB.
He is lucky enough to have reported for the
BBC from more than twenty countries and won several awards for
his journalism.
Bruce Keogh
Ian Carruthers
Tony Jewell
Neil Maskery
Information Mastery or How
to Tell a Dolphin From a Cow. Neil will be developing the
successful session he ran in Edinburgh last year. Back by popular
demand.
|