Contextual Lecture: Does the NHS have a Future?
Healthcare systems all over the world are in crisis. With the immense costs of longer lives and medical technology, can healthcare based on general taxation survive, and what would happen to equality and cohesion under commercially funded healthcare?
About the speaker: Professor Henry Marsh CBE
Henry Marsh trained as a neurosurgeon after reading PPE at Oxford and Medicine in London. His work has been the subject of two major BBC documentaries, ‘Your Life in their Hands’ (2003) and Emmy-winning ‘The English Surgeon’ (2009). An international bestseller, his book Do No Harm (2014) has been translated into 30 languages, winning both the Sky Arts South Bank Show 2015 Award for Literature and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was followed by Admissions (2017), receiving equally enthusiastic reviews and becoming a Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Although retired from full-time work in the NHS, he continues to work in diverse countries such as Ukraine, Nepal and Albania, and is a passionate defender of the NHS. In 2010 he was made a CBE by HM the Queen, and in 2017 he received the Times’ William Howard Russell Award for non-fiction.
This lecture is part of the Contextual Lecture Series: Tomorrow's World - Intimations of the Future