The business of healthcare -- ethical issues for doctors, vets and dentists £75

Join the Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare at the Edinburgh Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL to explore the tensions in the way that we organise care and the way it's funded. This will be a unique opportunity to hear perspectives from GPs, vets and dentists, and to consider what can be learnt from each other, from overdiagnosis and overtreatment, to equity in access and job satisfaction.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Emerita Allyson Pollock, consultant in public health medicine and Honorary Professor at St Andrews, and former Director of Health and Society at Newcastle University. Allyson will deliver the keynote presentation on Corporate control and the evolution of General Practice into a business: a historical perspective.

Joining us too are expert speakers including:

• Caroline Scobie, a small animal General Practice vet with a strong interest in evidence-based care, and Dr Rachel Dean, Director of Clinical Research and Excellence in practice at VetPartners group. They will consider the daily dilemmas and tensions vets face, external influences and differences in ways of working. Vet student, Tatum Moore, will describe her MSc research in corporatisation of clinics and the relationship to morale in vets.
• Professor David Conway, Professor of Dental Health, Director of Dental Research and Head of Community Health at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Consultant with Public Health Scotland will talk about the challenges of inequalities in access to dental care.
• Dr David Blane, Senior Clinical Lecturer in General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Glasgow, will speak about GP funding and how this is related to equity of access.
• Dr Chris Johnstone, retired GP, will highlight his recent research paper about changes in Scottish general practice and the rise of ‘megapractices'.
• Professor Kevin Orr, Professor of Leadership and Governance at the University of St Andrews Business School, will present on the experience of outsourcing public sector services, including underlying assumptions, dilemmas, promises and failures.

Together our experts will host a training workshop with small groups considering the challenges in specific areas relevant to this topic, from over-treatment and equity, to funding gaps and outsourcing.

There will be further insights from students from the University of Birmingham, our future clinicians and researchers, Muhaimin Shah and Daniel George. Their second-year Personal Interest Projects explore economic motivations in healthcare and the question of medicine as a job or a vocation.

Tickets for the event cost £75 and can be booked through the University's online payment service: The business of healthcare – ethical issues for doctors, vets and dentists