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.
Hospital->Community, Analogue->Digital, Treatment->Prevention
These three shifts sit at the heart of the UK Government’s NHS 10 Year Health Plan for England. But what do these shifts really mean in practice — and how far are they already reshaping everyday care?
At this year’s Medics’ Day, we bring together a panel of leading clinicians, academics and policy voices to explore these proposed transformations, each drawing on examples from their own experience.
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.
- From 10.00am Coffee and registration in the Margaret Thatcher Centre
- 10.30 – 12.30pm Through the Crystal Ball: The Three Shifts Reshaping Our NHS?
Three short presentations from each panel member followed by interactive discussion and Q&A
Chair: Professor Kamila Hawthorne (1979), Chair of the Somerville Medics.
Hospital->Community:Professor Gail Hayward ,Professor of Primary Care, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
Analogue->Digital: Dr. Selvaseelan Selvarajah, GP Partner at Bromley by Bow Heath and RCGP Council Member
Treatment->Prevention: Professor Tracy Daszkiewicz, President of the Faculty of Public Health and .
- 12.30pm Drinks Reception
- 1.00pm Lunch in Hall
- 2.15pm Dr Helen Ashdown, Janet Vaughan Tutor in Clinical Medicine: Somerville Medicine update and student research project 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