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🌟 As part of the programme of activities to mark Turning Point’s 60th year, we are hosting a series of webinars looking at some of the challenges facing the health and social care sector as we approach the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. 💙 The webinars are an opportunity to hear from leading thinkers in the sector, including former Labour Health Secretary Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, Professor Sir Michael Marmot, and broadcaster and academic Tom Shakespeare, are free to attend and open to all. A range of topics will be covered, looking at some of the key issues facing the drug and alcohol treatment, mental health and learning disability sectors today. ➡ For more information about the programme and to register to attend visit this link: https://lnkd.in/euJy3dDX The webinars that will take place are: ➡ Can (and should) charities and social enterprises play a bigger role in the delivery of public services? With former Health Secretary the Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt. ➡ The future of social care with writer, broadcaster and disability campaigner Tom Shakespeare CBE. ➡ Synthetic opioids – how does the drug and alcohol treatment sector need to work differently to respond to the changing drug supply? With harm reduction and local intelligence systems expert Michael Linnell. ➡ How can we shift the dial on health inequalities? With Director of the Institute of Health Equity, Professor Sir Michael Marmot. ➡ Mental health services - imagining a better future with co-production specialist and campaigner Isaac Samuels ➡ Unblocking the system – how can we move more people with a learning disability out of long stay hospital? With Professor Robin Miller from the University of Birmingham. ➡ How can we reduce alcohol harm? With Dr Richard Piper, Chief Executive of Alcohol Change UK. Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, Social Enterprise UK, National Voices, NCVO, ACEVO, NHS Confederation, Double Impact Services #TurningPoint60 #WebinarSeries #SubstanceUse #MentalHealth #LearningDisability