The Northern Ireland Health Economics Group will host a seminar by Dr Geraint Lewis, Nuffield Trust, London entitled “Predicting who will need costly care in the NHS.Developing a model to predict the use of social care ” on the 18th June.

Dr Lewis is a public health physician who qualified in medicine from Cambridge University, and worked asa junior doctor in London and Sydney before starting higher specialist training in Public Health. Working at Croydon Primary Care Trust between 2004 and 2006 he developed and implemented the Virtual Wards project. The scheme won an unprecedented four prizes at the Health Service Journal Awards in November 2006, and the Guardian Newspaper’s Public Service Awards 2007 . After leaving Croydon he became a policy advisor at the Cabinet Office and visiting fellow at the King's Fund, before spending the 2007–08 academic year as a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in New York, where his research explored the use of predictive modelling in the United States. Geraint was the 2008 recipient of the National Directors' Award at the Veterans' Health Administration in Washington DC.

Date and Time: Friday, 18th June 2010 at 1 pm
Location: Upper Lecture Theatre, Education & Research Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital
 

Admission is free (50 spaces available)
A light lunch will be provided from 12.30 pm
To register your attendance, please RSVP to
Dr Ashley Murray, Clinical Research Support Centre
T: 028 90635793
E: ashley.murray@crsc.n-i.nhs.uk