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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The future of the NHS and Public Health

24th November 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Online

The University of Staffordshire’s Centre for Health and Development (CHAD) and the Faculty of Public Health are delighted to invite you to this webinar with Roy Lilley, Independent health policy commentator.

In this webinar, Roy will explore the future of Public Health and NHS after decades of reform and restructures and the current uncertainty in an era of increasing budgetary, political and professional pressures. "Expect everything but reality. Expect everything but brass tacks and nuts and bolts. Expect sophistry, evasion and denial. There is no disgrace in plans not adding up the disgrace is in pretending they ever will."

Roy Lilley – Biography

Roy Lilley is the Country’s leading independent health policy commentator on health and social care and much sought after by the media. He has held senior office in the NHS, local government, politics, a Visiting Fellow at Imperial College’s Management School and the Centre for Health Services Management. Roy chaired the People’s Inquiry into London’s NHS, is the author of over twenty books on health and health and health service management and posts a free thought provoking eLetter four times a week on Roy Lilley NHS Managers – IHSCM which is compulsory reading for over 300k health professionals. As a strident critic of top-down NHS reorganisations, Roy was a vocal opponent of the Lansley reforms and is credited for coining the latter’s ‘La La’ nickname.

This one hour-session will include:

  • Chair's welcome - Professor Patrick Saunders
  • Expert presentation – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The future of the NHS and Public Health: There is no disgrace in plans not adding up, the disgrace is in pretending they ever will. Roy Lilley, Independent health policy commentator.
  • Q&A
  • Chair's concluding remarks 

Register for this event here (please note this link will take you to an external registration page).

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