The business of healthcare – ethical issues for doctors, vets, and dentists 
 
Join us in Edinburgh to explore and discuss the tensions in the way that we organise care, and the way it is funded. This will be a unique opportunity to hear perspectives from GP’s, vets, and dentists, and to consider what can be learnt from each other - from overdiagnosis and overtreatment, to equity in access, to job satisfaction. 
 
We are delighted to welcome Professor Emerita Allyson Pollock, consultant in public health medicine, Honorary Professor University of St Andrews, and was Director of Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University.  Allyson will deliver the keynote presentation ‘Corporate control and the evolution of General Practice into a business: a historical perspective’. 

Joining us too are a host of other expert speakers from the worlds of healthcare, verterinary practice and dentistry - see 'more information' for speaker info.  As well as individual presentations, together our experts will host a training workshop with small groups considering the challenges in specific areas relevant to this topic: from over-treatment to equity, to funding gaps, to outsourcing.

We intend this event to be useful to doctors, dentists and vets - and people involved in thinking about contracts, business decisions in healthcare, financial pressures on the NHS, and how to use money to bring equity to care. People at the start, middle and later careers working in and around healthcare, as well as those working in policy, journalism, and patient advocates are all welcome.

Friday 19th June 9.30am to 4.30pm in-person event.