CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF THE NHS  

28 May 2018

Professor Rafael Bengoa, the author of a landmark report on the need for the transformation of health and social care in Northern Ireland, is to be the guest speaker at a major lecture next month hosted jointly by Queen’s and the Department of Health to help mark the 70th birthday of the NHS.

The lecture – on Tuesday, 12 June – is part of the Queen’s Policy Engagement series (QPol). It will be held at 1.30pm in the Queen’s Medical Campus.

Professor Bengoa’s address will examine the theme of reshaping health care for the next 70 years.

It will look at the policy challenges and opportunities facing health and social care across much of the industrialised world, as technologies and treatments develop and life expectancy continues to increase.

Professor Bengoa chaired the expert panel that reviewed health and social care in Northern Ireland. Its October 2016 report, widely known as the Bengoa Report, set out a radical blueprint for transformation.

Professor Bengoa previously served as Minister for Health and Consumer affairs in the Basque Government from 2009 to 2012. He practised as a doctor in both hospital and primary care and was also the World Health Organisation Director in Copenhagen and Geneva. He is also a senior fellow of Harvard School of Public Health, Vice Chairman of the European Commission's advisory group Horizon 20/20 looking at health, demography and wellbeing, and director of the health department at the Spanish Deusto Business School.

Department of Health Permanent Secretary Richard Pengelly, said: “I am delighted that we will be able to welcome Professor Bengoa back to Northern Ireland next month. With the 70th birthday of the health service approaching, it is an ideal time to focus on laying strong foundations for the next seven decades.

“That’s what transformation is about and we look forward to updating him on the life-changing work being driven forward across the health and social care system.”

Professor James McElnay Acting President and Vice-Chancellor at Queen’s, commented: “Queen’s University is pleased to be working with the Department of Health to host Professor Bengoa’s milestone lecture marking 70 years of the NHS. It is appropriate that this event is being held at Northern Ireland’s Medical School facilities on the Queen’s University medical campus.

"Queen’s is proud to make a longstanding and significant contribution to the health service in Northern Ireland through the delivery of excellence in clinical research and education.” 

The Lecture will take place at 1.30pm in Lecture Theatre 1, Medical Biology Building (MBC), beside Belfast City Hospital (Lisburn Road); it will be followed by a panel discussion and will conclude at 3.00pm. To register, click here.

Media enquiries to Queen’s Communications Office, tel: +44 (0)28 9097 3091.

Photo credit (main): The International Foundation of Integrated Care (IFIC)

 

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