The Annual Teddy Chester Lecture

The lecture will focus on the importance and value of listening to patients within the healthcare system.

The Cumberlege Report titled First Do No Harm was published in 2020 and highlighted the experience of patients and families who have been harmed through the use of medicines and medical devices.

Baroness Cumberlege described the healthcare system at the time as slow and siloed. She made a series of recommendations including a new role, the Patient Safety Commissioner.

Professor Hughes started in this role in September 2022. The Commissioner role is an independent public appointment to act as a champion for patients, elevating their voices into the heart of government to lead to positive change.

The inaugural term of the first Patient Safety Commissioner in the world has show that change can happen when the entirety of the healthcare system works together to listen to patients and work in partnership to keep them safe.

Professor Henrietta Hughes

Professor Henrietta Hughes OBE started in September 2022 as the first Patient Safety Commissioner, an independent role recommended by the report First Do No Harm.

Acting as an independent champion for patients Henrietta leads a drive to improve the safety of medicines and medical devices by ensuring that patient voices are at the heart of the design and delivery of healthcare in England.

A practising GP and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Medicine, University of Greater Manchester, Henrietta is a member of the Health Honours Committee and the guiding group of the Women’s Health and Care Leaders Network. Henrietta was previously the National Guardian for the NHS and a Medical Director at NHS England. Henrietta has held executive and non-executive roles in the NHS and is Chair of Childhood First, a children’s charity.

Teddy Chester Lecture

This annual lecture marks the contribution of Teddy Chester, who was the first professor of social administration at the University of Manchester.

From his appointment in the early 1950s, to his retirement in the 1970s he was an influential pioneer in management development, using evidence and research with policy makers, and working with clinical leaders. He was involved in founding and leading the NHS Graduate Training Scheme, and in founding Manchester Business School.

This event will be facilitated by Simon Moralee, Head of the Health Management Group and Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management, Alliance MBS.

There will be refreshments served from 5pm with the opportunity for networking before the lecture for those attending in person at Alliance MBS.