Ethics

Fragile health systems in mordern conflict (CPD available)

Karl Blanchet, Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Recognising mental health human rights - The way forward

Norman Sartorius, President of the World Psychiatric Association and of the European Psychiatric Association, Switzerland.

Protecting children from harm

Baroness Butler-Sloss, a former Lord Justice of Appeal. 

An ethicist's view (Audio only)

Dr Deborah Bowman, Senior Lecturer in medical ethics and law, St George's, London.

A view from the consulting room (Audio only)

Dr Iona Heath, President, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Preventing death and injury from explosive violence

Mr Richard Moyes, Policy and Research Officer for Action on Armed Violence.

Breakfast Briefing: Global health security (Audio only)

Dr David Heymann, Global Health Security, Chatham House

Free

Patient safety: A patient led NHS

Joan Saddler, National Director of Patient and Public Affairs, Department of Health. 

Three nations, one global economy, one search for health?

Professor Finn Diderichsen, Professor at the Department of Social Medicine, Copenhagen.

Economic instability: why, when and where it matters to population health

Professor George Kaplan, Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor of Public Health, Emeritus, University of Michigan, USA.

Assisted suicide: Setting the scene

Lord Mackay of Clashfern, principal author of the House of Lords Report on Assisted Suicide. 

Assisted Suicide: The sanctity of life - A religious and secular perspective

Professor Paul Badham, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales. 

Assisted suicide: The sanctity of life - A Christian perspective

The Right Reverend Michael Langrish, Bishop of Exeter. 

Assisted suicide: nursing issues

Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive and General Secretary, Royal College of Nursing.

Assisted suicide: Evidence FOR a slippery slope

Professor David Jones, Director of the Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies, St Mary's University College.

Assisted suicide: Evidence AGAINST a slippery slope

Professor Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Associate Professor, VU Medical Center, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Amsterdam.

Breakfast Briefing: The British Red Cross (Audio only)

Sir Nicholas Young, CEO, British Red Cross

Free

Debate: FOR

FOR: Lord Joffe, Seconder - Raymond Tallis

Free

Assisted suicide: regulatory issues

Professor Sir Graeme Catto, Chairman, Better Regulation Group, Universities UK. 

The governance of patient safety: what all boards need to know

Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Director of the Good Governance Institute and Jonathan Hazan, Chief Executive of Datix.

Stevens Lecture: balancing cost and effectiveness in healthcare

Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence.

Free

36th Albert Wander lecture: Beyond quality in the NHS

Professor David Haslam, Immediate Past President, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Killing pain or killing patients? Double effect and doctors in the dock

Dr Richard Huxtable, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine. 

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