Join Gavin Francis, author and GP, in conversation with Michael Rosen, one of the UK’s best-known children’s authors, to find out why they think Britain’s health service is worth saving.
They will share professional and deeply personal perspectives on Covid as well as discussing what recovery really means, both for individuals experiencing illness and for the NHS as an institution in crisis.
The conversation will facilitated by Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, Emeritus Professor of Nursing at the University of West London.
The event takes place in our building and will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.
Gavin Francis is author of ‘Free for All: Why the NHS is Worth Saving’ and ‘Recovery’, published by Wellcome Collection.
Michael Rosen is author of ‘Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS’ and ‘Getting Better’, published by Ebury Press.
Dates
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Need to know
Location
We’ll be in the Henry Wellcome Auditorium. To get there, take the stairs or the lift down to level −1. The auditorium is fitted with a hearing loop.
British Sign Language
This event is British Sign Language interpreted. An interpreter will be visible to all attendees, in the building and online. They will interpret what is discussed into BSL for d/Deaf, hard of hearing and deafened attendees.
Speech-to-text
This event will be live-transcribed, which may be useful for people who are D/deaf, hard of hearing, deafened or neurodivergent. The captions will be displayed on a large screen in-venue. Ticketholders for the livestream will receive a link to view the captions in a separate window.
Hearing loop
There will be a hearing loop at this event.
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About your contributors
Gavin Francis
Speaker
Dr Gavin Francis has worked across four continents as a surgeon, emergency physician, medical officer with the British Antarctic Survey and latterly as a GP. He’s the author of the Sunday Times-bestselling ‘Adventures in Human Being’ and ‘Recovery’, as well as ‘Shapeshifters’ and ‘Intensive Care’. He also writes for the Guardian, The Times, the London Review of Books and Granta.
Michael Rosen
Speaker
Michael Rosen is one of the best-known figures in the children’s book world. He is renowned for his work as a poet, performer, broadcaster and scriptwriter. He is Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London and visits schools with his one-man show to enthuse children with his passion for books and poetry. In 2007 he was appointed Children’s Laureate, a role which he held until 2009. While Laureate, he set up The Roald Dahl Funny Prize. He currently lives in London with his wife and children.
Elizabeth Anionwu
Facilitator
Dame Elizabeth Anionwu is Emeritus Professor of Nursing at the University of West London. In 1979 she became the first UK sickle cell nurse counsellor, based in Brent, London.