Public health

23andMe: 102nd Medical Innovations Briefing

Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe

Free

Adolescents with intellectual disabilities and their mental health needs

Dr Angela Hassiotis, Psychiatric Reader and Consultant, University College London.

Breakfast Briefing: Medical Research Council

Professor Sir John Savill, Chief Executive, Medical Research Council.

Free

Stevens Lecture 2011: pancreatic cancer, challenges and hopes

Professor Robin Williamson, Immediate Past-President, RSM.

Free

Breakfast Briefing: Care Quality Commission

Dame Jo Williams, Chair, Quality Care Commission.

Free

The nice or not so nice lecture

Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman, NICE.

Free

The Jephcott lecture 2011: time for a SASS tax

Professor Sir Nicholas Wald, Director, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine.

Breakfast Briefing: Cancer Research UK

Harpal Kumar, CEO, Cancer Research UK

Free

Breakfast Briefing: A Look at the reforms (Audio only)

Dr Clare Gerada, Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Free

Learning from experience - Professor Sir Brian Jarman OBE

Professor Sir Brian Jarman OBE, Emeritus Professor, Imperial College, London. 

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

Clinical and policy perspectives on prevention of diabetes and its complications

Professor Nick Wareham, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge

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 social aspects of ageing

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

Breakfast Briefing: Developments in stroke care strategy (Audio only)

Dr Anthony Rudd, Consultant Physician in Stroke Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, and 'Stroke Tsar'.

Free

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

Moses, microscopes and molecules; A history of chlamydial infection

Dr Geoffrey Ridgway, Clinical Microbiologist, Hampshire. 

Stevens Lecture: balancing cost and effectiveness in healthcare

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

Free

Science and non-science in drug policy

Professor David Nutt, Imperial College, London.

Free

36th Albert Wander lecture: Beyond quality in the NHS

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

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