Will Competition Improve the NHS?

British Goverment@LSE public debate

Date: Monday 12 March 2012 
Time: 6.30-8pm 
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Dr Zack Cooper, Paul Corrigan, Frank Dobson MP, Alastair McLellan, Zoe Williams
Chair: Professor Simon Hix

Event update: Friday 2 March - Philip Collins, Clare Gerada and Mark Littlewood  are no longer speaking at this event as previously advertised.

This event will bring together a range of experts in the field of NHS reform to debate whether competition has a role to play in improving the NHS. Each speaker to talk for 5 to 7 minutes, before opening to questions from the floor.

Dr Zack Cooper is a health economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Zack's work focuses on assessing the impact of competition in hospital and insurance markets and analysing the effect of financial incentives and payment reforms on health care delivery. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and did his Masters and PhD at the London School of Economics.

Paul Corrigan CBE is a Labour politician, and was health adviser to Tony Blair.

Frank Dobson MP is a Labour Party politician who was Secretary of State for Health from 1997 to 1999. 

Alastair McLellan is editor of the Health Service Journal.

Zoe Williams is a regular columnist in The Guardian and New Statesman.

Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #lseNHS

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email gov.britgov@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6498. 

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