How to Choose a Doctor or Surgeon

When:
February 17, 2016 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
2016-02-17T18:00:00+00:00
2016-02-17T19:00:00+00:00
Where:
Museum of London, Barbican
Barbican
London EC2Y
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Gresham College
02078310575

Various governments have promoted ‘patient choice’ as part of NHS reforms. Yet few people know how either to make that choice or how to exercise it.

This lecture will consider the criteria one might use to differentiate one doctor from another or one surgeon from another, and whether you should be judging the individual, the team they work in or the organisation that houses them. We will also consider whether the promises of patient choice are either real or implementable in the new NHS, and how you, as a member of the public, might navigate the system and get your way.

Professor Elliott will be joined by Dr Neil Bacon FRCP to deliver this lecture.

This is a free public lecture by Martin Elliott, Gresham Professor of Physic.

There is no need to book in advance for this lecture. It runs on a first come first served basis.