I hope this meeting will be of interest
Una Macleod
Narrowing the inequalities in health gap What difference can primary care
make?
We would like to invite you to a meeting organised by the Department of
General Practice at the University of Glasgow, on inequalities and health
and what this means for professionals working in primary care.
Date Tuesday April 9th 2002
Time 9.30 - 16.30
Venue Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre, Glasgow
MEETING AIMS
The aim of the meeting is to discuss recent inequalities and health research
in the context of practice in order to try to better understand the
difference primary care can make in addressing inequalities.
TOPICS will include
Practice perceptions and responses to deprivation by GPs, practice managers
and nurses
Deprivation and co-existing disease
Distribution of primary care resources
Recent policy interventions
What difference can primary care make?
CONTRIBUTORS will include
CHRIS BURTON, GP, Sanquhar, Dumfries-shire
HUGH GRANT, General Manager, Clydebank LHCC
PHIL HANLON, Director, Public Health Institute of Scotland
KEN JUDGE, Professor of Health Promotion, Department of Public Health,
University of Glasgow
DANNY MACKAY, Research Fellow, Department of General Practice, University of
Glasgow
LIZ MITCHELL, Lecturer in Informatics, Tayside Centre for General Practice,
University of Dundee
IAIN RICHARDS, GP, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
GRAHAM SMITH, Lecturer in Healthcare Studies and Clinical Humanities,
University of Sheffield
MATT SUTTON, Research Fellow, Department of General Practice, University of
Glasgow
YVONNE TAYLOR GP, Thornliebank Health Centre
JANET TOBIN, Public Health Practitioner, Glasgow Eastern LHCC
IAIN WALLACE, Medical Director, Greater Glasgow primary Care Trust
GRAHAM WATT Professor of General Practice, University of Glasgow
The day will end with a Question Time panel discussion where there will be
the opportunity to put some of the contributors including Phil Hanlon, Iain
Wallace and Hugh Grant under the spot light to give some definite answers
about narrowing the inequalities gap.
PGEA approval has been applied for
Lunch and refreshments will be provided
If you would like to attend please email Leila Inglis [log in to unmask]
with your name and address by March 22nd.
Una Macleod
Lecturer
Department of General Practice, University of Glasgow
4 Lancaster Crescent, Glasgow G12 0RR
Telephone: 0141 211 3383 / 1666, Fax: 0141 211 1667
Practice details: Shettleston Health Centre, 420 Old Shettleston Road,
Glasgow G32 0JZ
Telephone: 0141 531 6220, Fax: 0141 531 6298
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