Date: Monday 17 May 2010
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Sir Christopher Kelly
Chair: Professor Julian Le Grand

The lecture will discuss some of the issues facing the health and social care system following the election. The lecture is followed by a reception.

Sir Christopher Kelly is chair of the NSPCC, of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and of the Financial Ombudsman Service. In October 2010 when he stands down from the NSPCC after 9 years he will become chair of the Kings Fund. He was Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health from 1997 to 2000 and head of the Policy Group at the then Department of Social Security 1995-97. Before that he spent 25 years in HM Treasury, finally as Director of Monetary and Fiscal Policy and then Director of the Budget and PSBR. He has also been a board member of the National Consumer Council and chaired various inquiries and advisory groups, including one on long-term care for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Julian Le Grand is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at LSE, Chairman of LSE Health and Chairman of Health England: the National Reference Group for Health and Well Being for the UK Department of Health.

This event is free and open to all but pre registration is required by email to pssru@lse.ac.uk.

For more information, contact Anji Mehta (020 7955 6238) or Dan Kearns (020 7849 4665), email pssru@lse.ac.uk or visit the LSE Health and Social Care website.

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