Professor Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King’s Fund and Honorary Doctor of Letters at Kent, will give the lecture on 7 July.
Entitled What are the prospects for the NHS in the new parliament?, the lecture will take place at 6pm in the Colyer-Fergusson Music Building. The lecture is free and open to all.
Professor Ham will address the implications, for both NHS patients and staff, of issues such as funding, productivity and new care models at a time of growing financial and service pressures. Following his lecture, he will take questions from the audience.
Chris Ham was Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Birmingham between 1992 and 2014 and Director of the Health Services Management Centre at the University between 1993 and 2000. From 2000 to 2004 he was seconded to the Department of Health, where he was Director of the Strategy Unit, working with ministers on NHS reform.
He has advised the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank and has served as a consultant on health care reform to governments in a number of countries.
He is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and a companion of the Institute of Healthcare Management. He is a founder fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Professor Ham was awarded a CBE in 2004 and an honorary doctorate by the University of Kent in 2012.
He took up his post as Chief Executive of The King’s Fund in April 2010.
Anyone wishing to book a place is asked to contact organiser Helen Wooldridge at CHSS.