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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 expert speakers and discussants including:
• Caroline Scobie, a small animal General Practice vet with a strong interest in evidence-based care; and Dr Rachel Dean, Director of Clinical Research and Excellence in practice at VetPartners group. They will consider the daily dilemmas and tensions vets face, external influences, and differences in ways of working.
• Professor David Conway, Professor of Dental Health, Director of Dental Research and Head of Community Health at the University of Glasgow, and Honorary Consultant with Public Health Scotland; will talk about the challenges of inequalities in access to dental care.
• Dr David Blane, Senior Clinical Lecturer in General Practice and Primary Care at University of Glasgow, will speak about GP funding and how this is related to equity of access.
• Dr Chris Johnstone, retired GP, will highlight his recent research paper about changes in Scottish general practice and the` rise of ‘megapractices’.
• Professor Kevin Orr, Professor of Leadership and Governance at University of St Andrews Business School. Kevin will present on the experience of outsourcing public sector services, including underlying assumptions, dilemmas, promises, and failures.
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.
Further insights will be from two brief presentations from students from University of Birmingham - our future clinicians and researchers – Muhaimin Shah and Daniel George. Their second-year Personal Interest Projects explore economic motivations in healthcare and the question of medicine as a job or a vocation.
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. The Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare is not-for-profit. We aim to simply recover the cost of running the event in the event price. Our work is reliant on donations and securing grant funding - because we wish to remain independant we do not accept commercial sponsorship. Please visit our website if you would like to make an additional donation - for example - just a small donation could enable us to offer a subsidised place at our events to a student. All support is gratefully received.
If the event price is financially inaccessible to you but you are keen to attend, please contact us to discuss options. The event price of this event is a little higher than usual due to the city centre location.
Please contact us by email if you would like any more information, or have any questions.
