Frances Ivens Lecture: Evidence and the politics of improving the quality of care
5:30pm - 7:30pm /
Thursday 12th May 2016
Type: Lecture /
Category: Public
- 0151 794 4552
- Professor Sally Sheard
- Suitable for: All with an interest in the subject.
- Admission: Free Dinner is £20 per person, to register contact Professor Sheard.
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The Frances Ivens lecture is a new collaborative annual public lecture for medical humanities and social sciences, jointly hosted by the University of Liverpool, the Liverpool Medical Institution and the Liverpool Medical History Society.
Advances in research methodology in several disciplines have, since the mid-twentieth century, made it possible to evaluate more precisely than ever before the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to improve or maintain the health of individuals and populations.
Many of these advances originated in the United Kingdom. As a result, they have informed policy and practice more thoroughly in that country than in many others. In every country, however, the political cultures of the health professions and public bureaucracies have limited the influence on policy and practice of findings from research using these methodological advances.
Nevertheless, the influence of research evaluating interventions in healthcare and population health has grown steadily since about 1990. This lecture will be illustrated by narratives about events in recent history rather than by slides because of the documented difficulty, perhaps impossibility, of talking about power in PowerPoint.
The lecture is named in honour of Frances Ivens, Liverpool’s first female consultant surgeon. She was born in 1870 and qualified from the Royal Free Medical School in London in 1902, gained a Masters in surgery with a gold medal in 1903 and was appointed to Liverpool’s Stanley Hospital in 1907 to run the gynaecology department. She also provided clinics in her home for the babies of the poor. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 she set up a Red Cross Hospital close to the battle front in France, totally staffed by women. By the end of the war she and her staff had treated over 10,000 wounded soldiers, for which she was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d’Honneur. Ivens returned to work in Liverpool, taking up new roles at the Maternity Hospital and Samaritan Hospital. In 1926 she was the first woman to be elected Vice-President of the LMI. She retired from her various medical roles in Liverpool in 1930, and died in 1944.
Advances in research methodology in several disciplines have, since the mid-twentieth century, made it possible to evaluate more precisely than ever before the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to improve or maintain the health of individuals and populations.
Many of these advances originated in the United Kingdom. As a result, they have informed policy and practice more thoroughly in that country than in many others. In every country, however, the political cultures of the health professions and public bureaucracies have limited the influence on policy and practice of findings from research using these methodological advances.
Nevertheless, the influence of research evaluating interventions in healthcare and population health has grown steadily since about 1990. This lecture will be illustrated by narratives about events in recent history rather than by slides because of the documented difficulty, perhaps impossibility, of talking about power in PowerPoint.
The lecture is named in honour of Frances Ivens, Liverpool’s first female consultant surgeon. She was born in 1870 and qualified from the Royal Free Medical School in London in 1902, gained a Masters in surgery with a gold medal in 1903 and was appointed to Liverpool’s Stanley Hospital in 1907 to run the gynaecology department. She also provided clinics in her home for the babies of the poor. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 she set up a Red Cross Hospital close to the battle front in France, totally staffed by women. By the end of the war she and her staff had treated over 10,000 wounded soldiers, for which she was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d’Honneur. Ivens returned to work in Liverpool, taking up new roles at the Maternity Hospital and Samaritan Hospital. In 1926 she was the first woman to be elected Vice-President of the LMI. She retired from her various medical roles in Liverpool in 1930, and died in 1944.