Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England presents his 2023 Annual Report: Health in an Ageing Society
Thursday 6th June, 09:00 – 11:00
Henderson Lecture Theatre, XFi Building, The Business School, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter EX4 4PU.
This is predominantly an in-person event, for impactful interaction, but it will be possible to join the event remotely via Zoom.
This insightful and timely report clearly addresses the challenges being faced in communities across the Southwest of England. In a very approachable way, Professor Whitty’s report speaks directly to the public, policy makers, researchers, and the medical profession.
He refers frequently to the peripheral, coastal and rural regions of England where he says the NHS, social care, central and local government must start planning more systematically to meet ‘the inexorable rise of multi-morbidity’. Primary and secondary prevention, delaying ill-health, increasing data collection on the health needs of older adults, are all cited, alongside recommendations for research for scientists and funders.
Please join colleagues from a range of regional public sector, community, and NHS organisations to hear from the Chief Medical Officer and then, led by a panel of academic, medical and local authority experts, contribute to a lively, discussion around how as a region we can tackle an issue at the heart of our culture, improving outcomes across the Southwest.
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A registration fee of £10 will be requested to secure a place, but University of Exeter staff and students registered at the University of Exeter or Plymouth may attend at no cost.
Meet the Panel
Professor Chris Whitty
Professor Chris Whitty is Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and head of the public health profession. He is a practising NHS Consultant Physician at University College London Hospital.
Chris is an epidemiologist and undertook research and worked as a doctor in the UK, Africa, and Asia. He was Professor of Public and International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) before becoming CMO.
Chris was previously Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) including being head (CEO) of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the interim Government Chief Scientific Adviser and CSA at the Department for International Development (DFID).
He has published recent reports on health in an ageing society, health in coastal communities, air pollution and COVID-19.
Professor Ian Fussell
Ian Fussell is the Associate Pro Vice Chancellor Education in the Faculty of Health & Life Sciences. He has worked in Cornwall as a doctor since 1990 and for the Medical School since it opened in the Southwest 19 years ago. He is interested in the use of humanities in medical education, event medicine and planetary health. He organises teams of medical students to help provide first aid care at Glastonbury Festival. Since 2021 he has been Planetary Health Lead on creative projects with the Met Office and international collaborators for COP 26, COP 27, and, most recently, COP 28 (UAE) with We Are the Possible.
Professor Richard Holland
Richard Holland is Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of Exeter Medical School having previously been Head of Leicester Medical School. His background is in Public Health Medicine and Health Services Research with particular focus on extending roles of pharmacists, and in substance misuse research. He has a strong interest in delivering undergraduate medicine in such a way that students are well-prepared for F1 practice.
Dr Sarah Wollaston
Dr Sarah Wollaston was appointed as chair of NHS Devon in December 2021.
A practising GP in Devon, Dr Wollaston was MP for Totnes from 2010 to 2019, during which time she served as chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee in the Commons for five years.
Dr Wollaston, who lives in South Devon, has worked in hospital and primary care settings and returned to clinical practice during the pandemic as a GP and to help with the COVID vaccination programme.
She has been awarded an honorary fellowship with the Royal Society of Medicine in recognition of her work in public health and scrutiny of health policy.
Professor Linda Clare
Professor Linda Clare is a Professor of Clinical Psychology of Ageing and Dementia at the University of Exeter, aiming to improve the lives of older people and people with dementia. Her research has a focus on maintaining cognitive health in later life, living well with dementia, developing rehabilitative approaches to optimise independence and well-being, and supporting family care. She has published over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.
Professor Clare is a National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Gerontological Society of America and serves on the Governing Board of the Global Council on Brain Health.
Dr Chris Reid
Chris Reid is Chief Medical Officer of NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board. A GP for more than twenty years, he started his medical career as Medical Officer with the Royal Marines and has since worked in Dorset, New Zealand and Cornwall. He introduced a neighbourhood health care home model into rural Northland, New Zealand and continues to have a strong interest in inequalities of health care access and outcomes.
Dr Jane Masoli
Dr Jane Masoli is an NIHR Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Exeter & Honorary Consultant Geriatrician at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Trust. She is the NIHR Clinical Research Network Lead for the South West Peninsula for Ageing and Multiple Long-Term Conditions, and a member of the UK Young Academy, representing the Academy of Medical Sciences. Dr Masoli is a member of the British Geriatrics Society Geridata group and the European Geriatric Medicine Society Cardiovascular and BigData Special Interest Groups.
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