NHS Chief Executive and Health Minister join University lecture series on 50 years of the NHS
Posted on 28 April 1998
NHS Chief Executive and Health Minister join University lecture series on 50 years of the NHS
Alan Langlands, Chief Executive of the NHS, and Baroness Jay, Minister of State for Health, are just two of the speakers on the University's public lecture series celebrating 50 years of the NHS.
'It is fitting that the University, with its international reputation in health services research, should host this prestigious lecture series,' said the co-ordinator Karen Bloor, Research Fellow in Health Sciences at the University.
Topics covered in the series of six lectures will include the invention of general practice, the 'clash of cultures' in combining medicine, economics, and ethics in the NHS, and the future of the NHS. Other speakers will include Professors Alan Maynard and Alan Williams, both prominent health economists at the University of York.
The lectures take place on consecutive Thursdays from 7 May until 11 June, in lecture theatre V045, Vanbrugh College at 8pm. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.
Notes to editors:
- 7 May Continuation or change in 1948? The significance of the NHS. Professor Anne Digby.
- 14 May Medicine, economics, ethics and the NHS: a clash of cultures? Professor Alan Williams
- 21 May The NHS in the 1960s and 1970s: the invention of general practice. Professor Marshall Marinker
- 28 May The development of general management in the NHS. Alan Langlands, Chief Executive of the NHS
- 4 June The new NHS. Baroness Jay, Minister of State for Health
- 11 June The future of the NHS: where to next? Professor Alan Maynard, University of York.
Further information: Hilary Layton on 01904 432029 or Karen Bloor on 01904 434515.