Ian,

Yes, there is a sort of message, but I'm afraid we were bounced into organising the whole thing on a much shorter timescale than would have been desirable when the 'one-off' opportunity to link in with Frank Dobson's visit came up.  Having said that, we did know the date in late July and if I had not been intent on getting away on holiday and/or we had had our coordinator in post at the time we might have made this general announcement earlier (partners in the NoEIHI did get to know then).  Rest assured that this will not  be the last event of its type, and that we will aim organise future meetings in a more orderly way.

Sorry.

Chris Taylor

-----Original Message-----
From:	Ian Bowns [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:	Thursday, September 03, 1998 1:57 PM
To:	[log in to unmask]
Subject:	Re: Launch and Introductory Workshop for the North of Englan

In article <[log in to unmask]>, Rebecca L Jones
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>I have been asked to distribute the following message from Prof Chris Taylor.  
>My apologies if you 
>have already received this information from another source.  If you would like 
>to 
>attend the meeting please return the slip by FRIDAY 4TH SEPT.  
This looks very interesting but, not having heard about it elsewhere,
this sort of notice makes it impossible to attend.  Is there a lesson in
there somewhere?
-- 
Ian Bowns
Senior Research Fellow
Health Policy and Management
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
University of Sheffield
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