Physicians for Human Rights - UK announce a conference on Defeating
Discrimination in Health Care: the Human Rights Approach and its Role in
Medical Education

Monday 9th December 2002
9:00 a.m.  4:30 p.m.
Friends House
173-177 Euston Road
London, NW1 2BJ
ENGLAND

Evidence from around the world demonstrates that some doctors discriminate
in healthcare provision against marginalised groups of patients, including
for example women and ethnic minorities, and those with increased health
needs such as elderly people, people with learning disability and people
living with HIV.

This conference is the first in the UK to consider the implications of the
PHR-UK report on health care discrimination in the UK, submitted in May to
the UN Committee in Geneva [CESCR] that monitors the UK's implementation of
the right to health.

It will also feature a talk by the UN's first Special Rapporteur on the
Right to Health, Professor Paul Hunt of the University of Essex.

09:00   Registration

09:15   Plenary:        [ground floor]
        Dr Peter Hall, Chair of PHR-UK - Welcome and Introductions

09:30   Dr Peter Hall on the UK Shadow report
        - Chair Bernie Hamilton

10:00   Professor Azeem Majeed, Professor of Primary Medical Care at the
School of Public Policy, University College London on discrimination in
Health Care
        - Chair Dr Peter Hall

10:45   Coffee

11:15   Professor Paul Hunt, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, on
the role of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
        - Chair Bernie Hamilton

12:30   Lunch

13:45   Workshops:      [rooms 7, 8 & 9]
1.      How can UN human rights mechanisms help health professionals defeat
discrimination in  health care?
        Leader  Bernard F. Hamilton, Consultant in Human Rights and Special
Advisor to PHR-UK
        Rapporteur - Dr Julian Sheather, BMA Medical Ethics Department

2.      How can the UK Human Rights Act contribute to the defeat of health
care discrimination?
        Leader - Ms Parosha Chandran, Barrister and author of 'Guide to the
Human Rights Act 1998'
        Rapporteur - Dr Raj Chandran, former Commissioner for Racial
Equality

3.      What is the role of the human rights approach in medical education?
        Leader - Dr Peter Hall, Chair PHR-UK
        Rapporteur - Dan Goldstein, MedSIN-UK International Health Education
Co-ordinator

15:00   Tea

15:30   Plenary:        [basement]

        What is the role of human rights in medical practice and education
in combating discrimination in health care?
        Chair - Dr Christopher Burns-Cox, former clinical director Frenchay
Hospital, founder member of International Health Exchange,
        Baljit Phull, National President of MedSIN-UK,
        Dr Peter Hall, Chair PHR-UK.
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Conferences fees, in GB pounds:

95 for non PHR-UK members (see how to join PHR-UK for 50 below)
45 for students who are non PHR-UK members (see how to join PHR-UK for 5
below)
25 for PHR-UK members
5 for student PHR-UK members

Write to apply with cheque made out to PHR-UK to:
PHR-UK,
91 Harlech Rd,
Abbots Langley,
Herts, WD5 0BE
ENGLAND
Send your email address for prompt response.

-- Applicants for the Conference and PHR-UK membership can reduce their
conference fee --
APPLICATION FORM

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2. STUDENT APPLICATION
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Send this application form with a cheque made out to PHR-UK to:
PHR-UK, 91 Harlech Rd,
Abbots Langley,
Herts, WD5 0BE. ENGLAND


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