OPEN MANIFESTO POLICY DRAFT
The current NHS funding model has not changed since its founding 80 years ago and yet all attempts are reform have hit political or managerial buffers. Meanwhile Britain’s health outcomes remain amongst the worse in the G20. What reforms are desirable and achievable and how?
Professor Stephen K Smith is a clinician scientist having held senior positions in Academic Medicine and the NHS at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College, London and most recently the University of Melbourne.
Prof Smith led the formation of the UK’s first Academic Health Science Centre at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and was its first CEO. A gynaecologist by training, he has published over 230 papers on reproductive medicine and cancer. He was awarded his Doctor of Science in 2001 for his work in Cambridge on the complex gene pathways that regulate the growth of blood vessels in reproductive tissue.
