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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:38:46 -0000
From: Andrew Webster <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ESRC/MRC Innovative Health Technologies: London October 27
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Dear colleagues:
The ESRC/MRC Programme is now in its final year and plans have been put
in place for a major conference where its principal results will be
explored. This will be an opportunity for researchers, health
practitioners, private sector developers and policymakers to hear about
the work of 31 projects covering a broad range of fields including
drugs, medical devices, genetics, and telehealth informatics. We have
organised the results into five thematic areas for the day.
The meeting will ask: How do IHTs shape health and health delivery and
how are they shaped by those who use them? Why are some health
innovations successful and how do we define success? What effect do new
technologies and interventions have on the structuring of delivery, how
is their utility and value judged, and how do clinicians, patients,
carers and others regard these developments?
This conference comes at an important time: when the results of the UK's
Healthcare Industry Task Forces recommendations are being implemented,
when the government's two recent White papers on Genetics in the NHS and
Public Health set out the priorities for innovation and seek to
anticipate long term changes in the character of health, health care and
the locus of responsibility for health delivery, and when the House of
Commons Health Select Committee's own recommendations on 'The Use of New
Medical Technologies Within the NHS' and the government's response will
be made public.
The Conference will be at Church House, Westminster
Further details are at
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/iht/events/FinalConference.htm
We expect about 250 delegates to be attending. To register your interest
in attending please contact Stephanie Hazel-Gant at [log in to unmask] or
Telephone 01904 433064. Further details on registration will be
despatched to those expressing an interest in the meeting.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Professor Andrew Webster
IHT Programme Director
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Dr Jane Sandall
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