Florence Nightingale Seminar - Julian Le Grand

On 8 October 2007, Professor Julian Le Grand gave a Florence Nightingale seminar entitled 'From target to market: patient choice and provider competition in health care'. Julian Le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics.
 
Professor Le Grand was introduced by the Head of School, Professor Anne Marie Rafferty. Professor Le Grand's achievements include a secondment to Number 10 Downing Street as senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister from 2003 to 2005. He is currently Chairman of Health England: the DH National Reference Group for Health and Well Being; he was also the Chairman of the DFES Working Group on Social Work Practices that reported in April 2007. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, a Senior Associate of the King’s Fund, and a Founding Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. He has been vice-chairman of a major teaching hospital, a commissioner on the Commission for Health Improvement, and a non-executive director of several health authorities. He has been an adviser to the World Bank and WHO on health policy, and is currently a member of the Group of Societal Policy Analysts advising the President of the European Commission.
 
Julian Le Grand discussed the merits and demerits of four models of public service delivery: trust, targets and performance management, voice and choice and competition. He concluded that the least worst in many situation (though not all) was choice and competition
The seminar was followed by a wine reception.