Programme

10.30 Opening session: What's happening to our NHS and how can we reclaim it?

Frances O'Grady - TUC Deputy General Secretary

Dr Jacky Davis – BMA council member and Co-Chair of the NHS Consultants Association

Audience Q&A

11.30 Attendees can choose ONE of several breakout sessions on specific topics - to exchange ideas on campaigning in the community, influencing the NHS and finding out how campaigners like 38 degrees and ukuncut work

12.30 Lunch – extracts from Michael Moore's film 'Sicko' will be shown in the main hall

1.30   Afternoon session: The Way Forward

Feedback from the workshops and an audience discussion about how we can influence the future of our NHS. This will be followed by a fifteen minute break at 2.45.

3.00   Panel-led discussion: Question Time on Reclaiming Our NHS

Polly Toynbee - Guardian columnist and writer

Clare Gerada – Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners

John Lister – health journalist and Director of Health Emergency

Wendy Savage – Chair of Keep Our NHS Public

David Babbs - 38 Degrees, Executive Director

4.15   Closing remarks: It's Our NHS

Professor Harry Keen – President of the NHS Support Federation

4.30   Close