David Haslam – Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival

Side Effects – What’s the Prognosis for Healthcare?

With a single drug in the UK currently costing £340,000 per patient per year, who should get such treatments and how can we begin to afford them? Should we all be entitled to timely mental health therapy? How should we care for our old? As we grapple with the world’s worst pandemic for a century, what should we rightfully expect of doctors and what defines good healthcare? Former GP, Sir David Haslam has some solutions. A healthcare policy consultant, he has a packed CV that includes being the former Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, past-President of the British Medical Association, and a former vice-chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Talking to David Grayson CBE