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Science should take heed of the need to make the public its partners if it...
At the end of last month the Canadian Government announced that it would be going ahead with clinical trials of a controversial new treatment for MS sufferers called ‘liberation therapy.’ The decision...
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We need more than better chat-up lines to increase participation in research
‘Pedestrian freight.’ It is a term I had not come across until last week. I believe it is the phrase once used inside train companies to describe you and I, the commuters who throng with fortitude...
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Thoughts on public involvement, participation and engagement in research…from...
Those of you who follow me on twitter (and you can do so by clicking on the twitter symbol on the blog), will know that, earlier this week, I was tweeting from Copenhagen in Denmark. Myself and Derek...
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Details of The Guardian live Q&A on public engagement in research now available
The Guardian has just put up on its website details of the live Q&A about public engagement in research that it is holding at lunchtime on Thursday 24th May (that’s this week). Good line-up for...
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In 2013 we want every hospital to be doing this on International Clinical...
This from the Dorset Echo about Dorset County Hospital’s very simple approach to promoting the importance of taking part in clinical trials on International Clinical Trials Day yesterday. Happy to...
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NIHR announces strategic review of public involvement in research...
The following official announcement has just been posted on the NIHR website with links to the terms of reference and initial submission document. I say ‘initial’ because there will be others ways in...
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Unofficial update on NIHR’s strategic review of public involvement in...
The review panel conducting the NIHR strategic review of public involvement in research meets this coming Monday. So, I thought you might be interested in a very brief update on where we are, and what...
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Review of public involvement in NIHR published #ppiextramile
Hot off the presses: Almost a year to the day that the Director General Research and Development/Chief Medical Officer commissioned a strategic review of public involvement in the National Institute...
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A town hall meeting in Camden held a mirror up to public engagement British...
I was at Camden Town Hall on Monday night with a couple of hundred other citizens. We came together to talk about clinical research and I got a real kick out of it. The occasion was the first ever...
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