do economic growth and wellbeing sit well together ?

Wednesday 2nd December 2009

My two worlds of work, the economy and health, recently collided when I addressed the chairs and chief execs of greater manchester's ten PCTs (that's the folks that buy our healthcare) and did a keynote at a regional health conference. I went down a storm at the latter, rather like whoever it was that followed the beatles on the ed sullivan show, as I was preceeded by a phrophet of our time talking about how aspiring to economic growth was utterly misguided. That nicely cued me up to talk about... how we can drive economic growth. As it happens though, I agree with most of what he said... click here to see the presentation (pressing cancel it if it asks for a password).