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 Three paradoxes underlie medicine in the 21st century, says Sir Cyril Chantler, chairman of the King’s Fund and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, who will give the annual Marsden Lecture on Thursday 20 November.
The paradoxes he cites are: - Doctors have never before been able to do so much for patients but doctors are still criticised and unhappy
- Society has never spent so much on health care but health care is still short of resources
- People have never lived so long but the prevalence of disease and disability has never been higher
Sir Cyril, who will expand on these themes during the lecture, has just been appointed the first chairman of UCL Partners, the biggest academic health science partnership in Europe. UCL partners supports over 3,500 scientists, senior researchers and consultants, with a combined turnover of around £2 billion. Ends Notes to editors 1) For further information: Aysha Shah, communications assistant, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, 020 7317 7590, aysha.shah@royalfree.nhs.uk 3) The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust is renowned for its specialist services including liver, kidney and bone marrow transplantation, renal, AIDS/HIV, infectious diseases, plastic surgery, immunology, paediatric gastroenterology, ENT surgery and audiological medicine, amyloidosis and scleroderma. We run a major accident and emergency service, all branches of surgery and medicine, a renal service serving the whole of north London, paediatrics, maternity services, care of elderly people, an adolescent psychiatric service and one of two high security infectious diseases units in the country. We are a leading haematology centre and a major neuroscience base with a network extending throughout north London and into the Home Counties. We have associated internationally recognised research and training programmes. For more information visit www.royalfree.nhs.uk We are a member of the academic health science partnership UCL Partners. The Royal Free was the only teaching hospital in London to be rated excellent for services and excellent for use of resources in the 2008 Healthcare Commission annual health check.
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