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Must You Go?
Antonia Fraser discusses her book about life with Harold Pinter.
Speaker: Antonia Fraser
Price: £8/£5
020 7324 2535
Organiser: Free Word Centre
Tags: Lectures & Debates
Writing Lives
The Chinese author Xinran on contemporary Chinese culture.
Speaker: Xinran
Price: £8/£6
01223 703 520
Organiser: Fitzwilliam Museum
Tags: Lectures & Debates
Film screening: No Man's Land
An exclusive screening of Danis Tanovic's Academy Award winning film, No Man's Land
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Jonathan Derbyshire, Culture Editor of New Statesman, and special guests on the influence of the media in conflict zones.
Price: Free
020 7936 6456
Organiser: New Statesman/BFI
Tags: Conferences & Seminars
How to save our Health Service
Health care is a principle of enormous importance to a healthy society, and providing health care to all, free at the point of delivery, is enshrined in our National Health Service. A continuing desire to uphold that principle is something that is close to the heart of the nation.
By the end of this decade, NHS spending is expected to approach 10 per cent of UK GDP (0.3 per cent of world GDP, over £100bn, or over £4,500 per household). Public finances are so weakened that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that NHS reform must be a priority for any new government.
The New Statesman and Pfizer Policy Forum round table provides a platform for constructive debate on this issue, with participants looking at the shared challenges facing the UK and US health systems and their areas of relative strength or weakness.
Niall Dickson, chief executive of the King’s Fund, sets the scene for the debate by assessing the challenges currently facing the NHS.
16 November 2009
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