SIR David Haslam CBE
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Biography: David Haslam is a writer and healthcare policy consultant, and former Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). He is also past-President and past Chairman of Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, past-President of the British Medical Association, a former vice-chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, and Professor of General Practice at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He was a GP in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, for over 35 years and has been Visiting Professor in Primary Health Care at de Montfort University, Leicester, an expert member of the NHS National Quality Board, and National Clinical Adviser to both the Care Quality Commission and the Healthcare Commission. He is currently a Director of the State Health Services Organisation in Cyprus.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of GPs, a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
He has written 13 books, mainly on health topics for the lay public and translated into 13 languages, and well over two thousand articles for the medical and lay press. He has been invited as keynote speaker to Conferences in 33 different countries, and in 2014 he was named by Debretts and the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential and inspirational people in the United Kingdom. He was awarded CBE in 2004 for services to Medicine and Health Care, knighted in 2018 for services to NHS Leadership, and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Birmingham University and the University of East Anglia.
David Haslam’s new book, SIDE EFFECTS: HOW OUR HEALTHCASE LOST ITS WAY – AND HOW WE FIX IT, was published by Atlantic in August 2022.
SIDE EFFECTS: HOW OUR HEALTHCARE LOST ITS WAY - AND HOW WE FIX IT
Non-fiction, 304 pages, Atlantic, 2022
With a single drug in the UK currently costing GBP340,000 per patient per year, or a gene therapy in the USA being costed at $1.2million, who should get such treatments, and how can we begin to afford them? Should we all be entitled to timely mental health therapy? How should we care for our old?
As we grapple with the world's worst pandemic for a century, our minds are on our health more than ever. But what should we rightfully expect of doctors? In this original and thought-provoking book, Sir David Haslam explores what good healthcare should achieve and asks how we pay for it. Informed by patient stories and data from across the world - from US big pharma to Britain's NHS - this is an urgent and often moving examination of our most important asset: our health.