Suffer the Little Children
Sir Ian Kennedy explores how to make the National Health Service more efficient and gives his own conceptual blueprint of how he believes it should work.
British academic lawyer Professor Sir Ian Kennedy explores the concepts of modern medicine in the third Reith lecture from his series entitled 'Unmasking Medicine'.
In this lecture entitled 'Suffer the Little Children', Professor Kennedy considers how the National Health Service needs reforming and gives a conceptual blue print of how he believes improvements should be completed. Exploring the political, economic and social decisions which influence the way the NHS is run, he questions whether more preventative measures could be taken to stop certain illnesses reaching hospitalisation level?
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- Wed 19 Nov 198009:00BBC Radio 4
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