Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Experts explore how shifting investment from treatment to prevention can extend healthy, productive lives.
At the Longevity Forum, this panel moderated by The Longevity Forum examines why health systems still prioritize treatment over prevention—and how to change it.
Panellists Lord David Prior (former Chair, NHS England), Professor Sir John Bell (Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford), and Dame Laura Lee (Founder & CEO, Maggie’s) discuss the barriers of legacy NHS architecture, short political cycles, and activity-based incentives that favour late-stage hospital care.
Key topics include:
Early Risk Identification: Leveraging AI, genomics, and proteomics to detect health risks sooner.
Preventive Therapeutics: Expanding access to statins, GLP-1s, and other proven interventions.
Community & Digital Solutions: Investing in neighbourhood health, rehabilitation, and digital delivery.
Budget & Policy Reform: Aligning funding and accountability toward long-term outcomes rather than activity.
The panel highlights the economic and societal benefits of prevention, from reducing productivity losses to tackling health inequalities, showing why shifting investment upstream is key to healthier, longer lives.
Experts explore how shifting investment from treatment to prevention can extend healthy, productive lives.
At the Longevity Forum, this panel moderated by The Longevity Forum examines why health systems still prioritize treatment over prevention—and how to change it.
Panellists Lord David Prior (former Chair, NHS England), Professor Sir John Bell (Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford), and Dame Laura Lee (Founder & CEO, Maggie’s) discuss the barriers of legacy NHS architecture, short political cycles, and activity-based incentives that favour late-stage hospital care.
Key topics include:
Early Risk Identification: Leveraging AI, genomics, and proteomics to detect health risks sooner.
Preventive Therapeutics: Expanding access to statins, GLP-1s, and other proven interventions.
Community & Digital Solutions: Investing in neighbourhood health, rehabilitation, and digital delivery.
Budget & Policy Reform: Aligning funding and accountability toward long-term outcomes rather than activity.
The panel highlights the economic and societal benefits of prevention, from reducing productivity losses to tackling health inequalities, showing why shifting investment upstream is key to healthier, longer lives.
