December 21, 2018

CMO’s annual report: What health could and should be like in england in 2040

The Chief Medical Officer briefed journalists on her annual report at the SMC. The report is an aspirational and strategic look at what health could and should be like in England in 2040. It covered:

• Health as an asset 
• The health environment
• Healthy life expectancy 
• Integrate intelligent “predict and prevent” services, 
• Health care achieves equity of access and uptake through embracing emerging technologies
• A new research paradigm for emerging technologies underpinned by patient safety
• World-leading ‘futures thinking’ 

Speakers:

Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer

Professor Majid Ezzati, Chair in Global Environmental Health at Imperial College London

Professor Jonathan Grant, VP at Kings College London

Paul Johnson, Director at the IFS

Dr Dominic King, Health Lead at DeepMind

Professor Michael Parker, Director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Oxford University