Medical management

Dependence, addiction and mortality from opioid medication

Professor David Nutt, Imperial College, London.

Promoting medicine - is compliance enough? (CPD Available)

Mrs Heather Simmonds, Director, Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority, London

Successful large scale Telehealth implementation (CPD Available)

Dr Adam Darkins, Chief Telehealth Consultant, USA.

Societal pressures in health care

Dr Mary Baker MBE, President, European Brain Council.

Managing the patient with a drink problem (CPD Available)

Dr Marsha Morgan, Reader and Consultant Physician, University College London.

Disability management and work: Are we making progress? (CPD Available)

Professor Dame Carol Black, Expert Advisor, Department of Health. 

Protecting adults across healthcare settings (CPD Available)

Mr David Congdon, Head of Campaigns & Policy, Mencap. 

How to provide better care for insomnia: Resources for effective sleep treatment

Professor Niroshan Siriwardena, Professor of Primary and Prehospital Health Care, University of Lincoln. 

Have we created an era of over-feminisation?

Jane Dacre, Vice Dean and Director of Medical Education, University College London. 

Recent advances in management of epilepsy

Professor Stephen Brown, Peninsula Medical School.

Setting the scene: the scale of the challenge for the NHS

Jim Easton, Director QIPP Programme, Department of Health.

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.

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

Medical Innovations: prescription medication kiosks

Peter Suma and Peter Ellis, Pharmatrust, Canada and the UK.

Debate: FOR

FOR: Lord Joffe, Seconder - Raymond Tallis

Free

Assisted suicide: regulatory issues

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

The social aspects of ageing

Professor Anthea Tinker, Professor of Social Gerontology at King's College London. 

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.

Breakfast Briefing: US healthcare reform (Audio only)

Professor Ezekiel Emanuel, Chair, Clinical Center Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA.

Free

Stevens Lecture: balancing cost and effectiveness in healthcare

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

Free

Clinical management of patients with secondary Hyperlipidaemias

Dr Hugh Simpson, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. 

36th Albert Wander lecture: Beyond quality in the NHS

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

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