Speech Day 2024 is just around the corner for last year’s Year 13s

We are delighted to announce that our guest speaker for Speech Day on Friday, 5th January is Professor Vari Drennan MBE. Professor Drennan is an alumnus of MGGS, completing her A levels in 1974. She read sociology and social policy at Southampton University, at the same time as qualifying as a Registered Nurse and Health Visitor. Her subsequent Master’s and Doctoral degrees were in the field of the sociology of health and illness. 

She has held jobs in the NHS as a specialist nurse, health visitor and senior manager of community health services, before taking up a post as a senior lecturer at University College London Medical School. She was appointed Professor of Health Care and Policy Research at St George’s, University of London in 2007. She now works part-time at Kingston University London, leading research studies which investigate questions of how best to staff the health services and how best to provide health and social care services to changing populations. She has authored over 140 research papers in journals and edited four textbooks. In 2016 she received the award of MBE (Member of the British Empire) at Buckingham Palace from Prince William, for her services to health service research and nursing.

We are pleased that last year’s Year 13 students will be back at MGGS to collect their certificates and prizes and that we will also be welcoming their parents/carers to celebrate successes with us.

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