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SUMMARY:How do you solve a problem like the NHS? The art of the possible. 
 - Nigel Edwards and Naomi Fulop
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DESCRIPTION:It is widely acknowledged that the NHS (and Care sectors) are 
 broken: bulging waiting lists\, workforce shortages\, poor morale. What sh
 ould be on the 'to do list' for an in-coming new Government? What improvem
 ents could be achieved in the first few years\, and what will take longer?
  Nigel Edwards\, formerly Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust\, will be 
 in conversation with Naomi Fulop\, Professor of Health Care Organisation a
 nd Management at UCL.\nNigel Edwards is an independent health policy exper
 t working as an advisor with WHO and a number of UK organisations includin
 g RAND Europe. Nigel was Chief Executive at the Nuffield Trust from 2012 t
 o 2023. He has a long career in health policy and working on innovation an
 d change in healthcare delivery and in providing challenging analysis on h
 ealth policy. He has a strong interest in using different disciplines to i
 nform health policy. He has worked for the King’s Fund\, KPMG’s global
  health practice and the NHS Confederation where he was Director of Policy
  for 11 years. Prior to that he worked at the London School of Hygiene and
  Tropical Medicine\, where he remains an honorary visiting professor. He s
 tarted his professional life as a graduate trainee in NHS management and w
 orked at hospital and regional level following this.\nNaomi Fulop is Profe
 ssor of Health Care Organisation and Management at University College Lond
 on and an NIHR Senior Investigator. She trained in social sciences at the 
 Universities of Bristol and London\, and in public health at Harvard on a 
 Fulbright scholarship. She is an internationally renowned health services 
 researcher health care change and improvement locally\, nationally and int
 ernationally. Naomi is currently Director of the NIHR Rapid Service Evalua
 tion Team (RSET). Her research has had impact on health policy nationally 
 and internationally. Naomi is a Non-Executive Director on the board of Whi
 ttington Health NHS Trust. She was previously elected Chair (2013-19) and 
 then a trustee of Health Services Research UK (2019-2022). Naomi is curren
 tly a Director of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK.
LOCATION:Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber
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