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Should we be stopping people in the street about their health? But not in our...
I live in Tunbridge Wells. I would be happiest in Chester. I should avoid Wealden. But if I couldn’t make the journey then Sevenoaks is my best bet. That’s what I learnt from the interactive test...
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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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Public engagement in research must break through its rose-tinted glass...
On Wednesday a consortium of 15 research funders and Universities UK led by the Wellcome Trust published its report ‘Factors affecting public engagement by researchers.’ The Wellcome Trust launch...
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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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Today’s public involvement in health research t-shirt
I didn’t know this but, apparently, the word ‘t-shirt’ does not just refer to the summer garment. It can also be used to describe a very brief ‘blog posting.’ There, I bet you feel better for knowing...
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The NHS is becoming like the Trevi Fountain…#sixprinciples
I am sure many of you will have heard the legend about the Trevi Fountain in Rome which inspired the 1954 film ‘Three Coins in the Trevi Fountain’ and title song. It says you must throw three coins...
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Patients and the public are vital to science’s role in a post #Brexit...
I do try to live up to my Tunbridge Wells postcode by firing off regular ‘disgusted’ letters to the press and, in particular, The Daily Telegraph (DT). On Monday Erik Nordkamp, Pfizer’s Managing...
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Patients are part of the crew in health research not passengers. This week...
It’s a big week in research. To mark International Clinical Trials Day on Saturday 20th May, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is promoting its ‘I Am Research’ (#iamresearch) national...
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