Regulating healthcare: Why, Who and How?

Dinner Discussion with Professor Sir Ian Kennedy LLD, Chairman of the Healthcare Commission on  Regulating healthcare: Why, Who and How? 
Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
1830 for 1845 (prompt) on 19 February 2008.

ian_kennedy Sir Ian is an academic lawyer who, for the past few decades, has lectured and written on the law and the ethics of healthcare. He has been Chairman of the Healthcare Commission since 2003.

He is Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at University College, London. He is a former President of the Centre of Medical Laws and Ethics at King’s College London, which he founded in 1978 and was a member of the GMC for nine years. He was the BBC's Reith lecturer (on the subject of "unmasking medicine") in 1980. He chaired the public inquiry into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (1998-2001) .

He was knighted in 2002 for services to medical law and bioethics.