Professor Martyn Partridge, Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology, National Heart and Lung Institute, presents his Professorial lecture: ‘There is more to delivery of good healthcare than the prescription’.
Abstract: The burden of respiratory disease has moved imperceptively over the last few decades from a burden of communicable respiratory diseases to a burden of long term conditions, such as asthma, COPD, sleep apnoea syndromes and diffuse parenchymal lung disease. Different approaches to the delivery of care are needed for long term conditions compared to short-lived infectious diseases and we have to recognise that increasingly our patients are as busy as the health professional. Furthermore, pressures upon clinical academics, the demands of other objectives upon NHS clinicians have led to a situation where consideration of other methods of delivering care, whether by new processes, new technologies or the use of new colleagues has become essential.
Biography: Martyn R Partridge is Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College London, NHLI Division based at Charing Cross Hospital, and Honorary Consultant Physician to Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust. He spent nearly 20 years as a consultant in general and respiratory medicine at Whipps Cross University Hospital before moving to Imperial College at the end of 2001.
Professor Partridge is (honorary) Chief Medical Advisor to Asthma UK and Vice-President and President-Elect of the British Thoracic Society. He has been involved in the British Asthma Guidelines since 1990. He is an elected member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and on the clinical steering committee of London Ambulance Service and is final year undergraduate co-ordinator for the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. His research interests are in evaluating the delivery of respiratory healthcare.
Chair: Professor Anthony Newman Taylor, Head of Division, National Heart and Lung Institute
Vote of Thanks : Professor Peter Barnes, Professor of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute
A tea reception will precede the lecture at 17.00 and a drinks reception will follow the lecture at 18.30, both in the Refectory, Guy Scadding Building, National Heart and Lung Institute.