BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Is the NHS financially sustainable? - John Appleby\, Director of R esearch and Chief Economist\, The Nuffield Trust &\; Visiting professor City University and Imperial College\, London DTSTART:20170310T130000Z DTEND:20170310T140000Z UID:TALK68618@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Rosa Attwood DESCRIPTION:The NHS is in the middle of its most financially parsimonious decade in its history. While it continues to treat and care for increasing numbers of people every year\, after five years of tight funding\, (and d espite a huge overspend last year) headline waiting times targets are bein g missed by increasing numbers of health care organisations. There’s no doubt the NHS currently faces a short term crisis. But what about the long er term? As the NHS approaches its 70th birthday\, is this the beginning o f the end for Britain’s best loved institution? Is the NHS financially s ustainable\, or do we have to start thinking of more radical ways to pay f or health care?\n\nChaired by Dr Ed Wilson\, Senior Research Associate\, H ealth Economics\, Department of Public Health and Primary Care\, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.\n\n\nJohn Appleby joined the Nuffield Trust a s Director of Research and Chief Economist in 2016 following his position at the King’s Fund as Chief Economist\, and senior lectureships in healt h economics at the Universities of East Anglia and Birmingham. After his m asters in health economics at the University of York in 1980\, he worked i n the NHS for seven years in Birmingham and London. For five years he work ed for the National Association of Health Authorities (now the NHS Confede ration) as manager of the Association’s Central Policy Unit. He has rece ntly moved to the Nuffield Trusts as their Director of Research and Chief Economist.\n\nJohn has published widely on a range of health care finance and economic issues in books\, academic journals\, reports\, magazines and newspapers. He is a regular columnist for the British Medical Journal. Re search include a major study of NHS performance since 2002 with Sir Derek Wanless\, published by the King’s Fund\, an analysis of the public’s a ttitudes to the NHS (the British Social Attitudes survey) and an analysis of future prospects for NHS funding written in partnership with the Instit ute for Fiscal Studies. \n\nAs well as his post at the King’s Fund\, J ohn is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics\, City Universi ty\, London\, and at the Institute of Global Innovations at Imperial Colle ge London. \n\nJohn has also acted as an advisor to the UK government and Parliament in various capacities\, for example\, carrying out a review fo r Ministers of the future funding needs of Northern Ireland’s health ser vice\, and as a task force member for the Marmot Commission on health ineq ualities\; and as a special adviser to the House of Commons Health Select Committee.\n\n LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR