{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Original Thinking Podcast","title":"Into the foreground: The emergence of healthcare science and public consciousness | The Teddy Chester Lecture | Original Thinking Podcast","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3542,"description":"Berne Ferry, Head of the National School of Healthcare Science, will deliver this year’s Teddy Chester lecture Into the foreground: The emergence of healthcare science and public consciousness.\n\nThis 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\n\nInto the foreground: The emergence of healthcare science and public consciousness\n\nHealthcare science has a long and varied history, encompassing over fifty distinct specialties working in the NHS. Around 55,000 NHS scientists are employed in hospital and community services, some of them working at consultant and director level. Until the advent of the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, public perceptions of scientists working in healthcare varied from being non-existent to a vague perception of an individual in a white lab coat, wearing safety glasses and peering through a microscope within the basement of a hospital. COVID-19 increased the visibility of the immensely diverse work of healthcare scientists and allowed patients and NHS colleagues to begin to recognise what a valuable resource the NHS had in this small but integral NHS workforce.\n\nTwo years on, the perception that fellow NHS professionals and the public now have of NHS scientists and scientists in general has altered irrevocably. Fellow NHS colleagues and NHS patients are not only interested and open to scientists being involved in patient care but genuinely want to engage with the science behind their tests and their treatment.\n\nThis talk will describe how, in the 2000s, a disparate collection of healthcare sciences was coalesced...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0zFNECVp6NWuQuyGodj-MCv9BCbo_cb0E7Xp6h0z9p0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzUxNzQwLzE3MTIw/NjM0MDQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}