Healthcare is such a major issue today that we tend to concentrate on the here and now. And yet in this, of all areas, the pace of change - politically, economically and above all technologically - means that in 10 or 20 years' time, things will almost certainly look very different. CNE has asked Prof Terence Kealey, one of the world's leading medical and heathcare futurologists, to look at what the likely changes will be over the next fifty or so years, and to analyse how they will impact on future healthcare systems. Prof Kealey will describe his findings at the latest CNE Health lunch.

Tuesday, 04 November 2003 Renaissance Hotel Rue du Parnasse 19, Brussels 12:30 -13:15 Cocktails 13:15-14:30 Lecture, Discussion, Lunch If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to events@cne.org. Please specify any dietary restrictions for the menu. Click here for a printable map to the Renaissance.

Terence Kealey graduated in medicine from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London University, in 1975. He then specialised in biomedical research, achieving his DPhil (PhD) from the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Oxford University, in 1982.

After an MRC Training Fellowship and a Wellcome Senior Clinical Research Fellowship he settled in 1986 in Cambridge as a university lecturer and NHS consultant in clinical biochemistry.

In April 2001 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham.

In his biomedical research he has focussed on the cell biology of human skin. But Terence Kealey has also studied the economics of science and higher education. His 1996 book The Economic Laws of Scientific Research argues that, contrary to myth, there is no market failure in science, and that it can be entrusted safely to the free market.