Minutes of the meeting held on 17 May 2007
Thu, 8 November 2007
9th meeting
NUFFIELD COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS
WORKING PARTY ON PUBLIC HEALTH: ETHICAL ISSUES
Minutes of the meeting held at the Nuffield Foundation 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS on Thursday 17 May 2007
PRESENT
Professor Sir John Krebs FRS (Chair)
Professor Tom Baldwin
Professor Roger Brownsword
Professor Sir Kenneth Calman KCB FRCS DL FRSE Professor Christine Godfrey
Professor Anne Johnson FmedSci
Ms Professor Jonathan Montgomery
Professor Sally Macintyre OBE FRSE CBE
Ms Julia Unwin OBE CBE
APOLOGIES
Dr Raghib Ali, Professor Trisha Greenhalgh OBE
SECRETARIAT
Mr Hugh Whittall, Mr Harald Schmidt, Ms Catherine Joynson, Ms Caroline Rogers, Ms Julia Trusler
INTRODUCTION BY THE CHAIR
1 The Chair welcomed the members of the Working Party. The purpose of the meeting was to agree the final wording of the conclusions and recommendations.
MINUTES OF THE EIGHT MEETING OF THE WORKING PARTY
2 The minutes were approved.
FINAILSATION OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
3 The draft Conclusions and Recommendations were projected onto a screen from a lap top computer and amended as the discussion progressed. Three new recommendations were added and the Secretariat would finalise the document and re-circulate it in due course.
WORK PLAN
4 The Secretariat would finalise the Report over the summer and it would be sent to the production manager in August. The launch was on 13th November. Plans were being made for the timetable of meetings before and after the launch and these would be circulated to members. Guidance and media training would be made available to members as needed. One year following the launch of the Report, members would be invited to a reunion dinner and to assess the impact of the Report.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
5 There was none.
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