Event Start Date: 07 March 2026
Through the Crystal Ball: The Three Shifts Reshaping Our NHS?
Hospital to Community, Analogue to Digital and Treatment to Prevention
Our annual Medics’ Day will be held on Saturday 7th March 2026.
This year’s theme looks to the future. Our speaker panel will explore the major transformations currently planned for UK health care, each drawing on examples from their own clinical, research or policy work. Together, we’ll consider whether these three shifts really do offer a glimpse of the NHS to come, in an interactive discussion inviting our Somerville Medical community to imagine – and challenge – the future of our health service.
A more detailed Programme will be published shortly:
- From 10.00am Coffee and registration in the Margaret Thatcher Centre
- 10.30 – 12.30pm Professor Kamila Hawthorne (1979), Chair of the Somerville Medics. This will be followed by presentations and a Q&A session featuring Professor Tracy Daszkiewicz, President of the Faculty of Public Health and (tbc) Dr. Gail Hayward, Professor of Primary Care, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.
- 12.30pm Drinks Reception
- 1.00pm Lunch in Hall
- 2.15pm Dr Helen Ashdown, Janet Vaughan Tutor in Clinical Medicine: Somerville Medicine update followed by student presentations
- 3.15pm Dr Xand van Tulleken (1996): The New Snake Oil: a journey through the dark heart of the wellness industry
- 4.00pm Tea