Objectives
• To increase knowledge and information sharing amongst clinicians and other health professionals about how social determinants of health affect the NHS and UK health system.
• To create a clear understanding of the leadership/advocacy role which doctors can play in addressing the social determinants of health both within their own communities and the wider healthcare and social systems.
• To explore opportunities for the incorporation of training in the social determinants of health into existing education programmes for health professionals.
09.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Welcome Professor Ian Gilmore, President, Royal College of Physicians and Commissioner on the Marmot Review
10.05 Opening address Dr Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer, Scotland
The social determinants of health: a policy overview
Chair: Dr Fiona Adshead, RCP International Advisor, Social Determinants of Health
10.20 The Marmot Review – A springboard for action Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London (video address)
10.35 The Marmot Review – Doctors meeting the challenge Professor Ian Gilmore, President, Royal College of Physicians
10.50 Coffee
11.10 Strategies for local implementation of integrated programmes to tackle the social determinants of health Dr Ruth Hussey, Regional Director of Public Health, NHS North West
11.20 European perspective on the social determinants of health Mr Michael Hübel, Head of Unit - Health Determinants, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General, European Commission
11.40 Panel discussion
Dr Harry Burns Professor Peter Goldblatt, Senior Research Fellow, Marmot Review, UCL Professor Ian Gilmore Dr Ruth Hussey Mr Michael Hübel
12.20 Lunch
Changing professional cultures within medicine towards the social determinants of health and sustainability
Chair: Dr David Pencheon, Director, NHS Sustainable Development Unit
13.20 How can secondary care clinicians best work to ameliorate health inequalities?
Dr Kiran Patel, Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
13.40 What are the co-benefits for health of action on climate change and sustainability?
Professor Ian Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
14.00 How can all doctors best advocate for culture change and interdisciplinary working to tackle health inequalities? Dr Sam Everington, General Practitioner, Bromley by Bow Centre 14.20 Panel discussion
Dr Kiran Patel Professor Ian Roberts Dr Sam Everington
15.00 Tea
The social determinants of health: implications for the education and training of doctors Chair: Professor Steve Field, Chairman of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners
15.20 Students’ advocacy on health inequalities; why do we need a change in learning? Mustafa Abbas, Medical Student, UCL
15.40 How can we better incorporate the social determinants of health into undergraduate education? Professor Peter Rubin, Chairman, General Medical Council
16.00 How can we better embed the social determinants of health into postgraduate medical training? Professor Alan Maryon-Davis, President, Faculty of Public Health
16.20 Panel discussion
Mr Mustafa Abbas Professor Peter Rubin Professor Alan Maryon-Davis
16.50 Call to action and vote of thanks Professor Ian Gilmore
17.10 Close of conference and reception
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