Events
25 October 2006
Health, Technology & Society Book Series Launch
A one day event to officially launch the new book series produced as a result of the IHT Programme. The event will take place at the Royal Society, London. Attendance is free but places are limited. Contact Stephanie at sjg11@york.ac.uk for further datails. A full programme can be seen here - html
NEW - A REPORT AND PDF OF PRESENTATIONS CAN BE SEEN HERE
16 March 2006
ESRC Social Science Week
Perspectives and Problems: Innovation in the NHS
A Half Day Seminar for Senior Managers, Practitioners and Researchers has been organised by the Institute of Health Sciences (IHS), the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) and the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) at the University of Manchester as a contribution to the ESRC Social Science Week 2006.
Further information here - pdf
27 October 2005
IHT Programme: Final International Conference
Preliminary details can be seen here - html
Registration form here - pdf
Report now available here - html and some pdf links (Adobe Acrobat 6.0 required)
IHT at the HTAi Rome, 20-21 June 2005
Further details can be found here - html
Registration form here - pdf
Report on the event here - html and some pdf links
8 November - 23 December 2004
PHARMAKON: Drug Prescribing, the Internet and Globalisation
Organised by Katie Ward and Nick Fox of Consumerism, Information and Drug Prescribing Governance project here - html
ONLINE CONFERENCE
The Internet is transforming relations between patients and medical professionals
as new opportunities emerge to access health-related information and to
purchase pharmaceutical drugs online. Many drugs can be purchased from overseas
Internet pharmacies, but now the UK government has ruled that patients can
purchase prescription drugs after an Internet ‘consultation’ with
a doctor. Challenges to the regulation of pharmaceutical drugs may lead
to relaxation of what information drugs companies can pass on to consumers.
The Pharmakon research team at the University of Sheffield has studied these
developments in the consumption and governance of pharmaceutical drugs for
the past two years, with funding from the UK Economic and Social Research
Council. To share our findings on this topic, we warmly invite you to join
and contribute to our ‘virtual conference’ on ‘The Governance
of Pharmaceutical Consumption in the Internet age’, from Monday 8th
November until 23rd December 2004. You will have the opportunity to explore
and discuss a number of issues including:
The Birth of the E-clinic
‘Expert patient’ or ‘Informed Consumer’?
Lifestyle Drugs and ‘Anti-Medical’ Consumers
Information provision and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (DTCA)
Modelling Technology Governance
3 November 2004
IHT 3rd Annual Meeting, Hamilton House, London
Delivering and Experiencing Innovative Health Technologies: Users’ Perspectives
The last annual conference of the Innovative Health Technologies Programme focused on the policy issues raised by IHTs. The 2004 Annual meeting explores how those whose task is to deliver IHTs cope with the demands and opportunities they have and those who, as patients or users, experience IHTs in clinical or non-clinical settings. The target audience is health care practitioners such as nurses, midwives, health visitors, GPs, counsellors, pharmacists, and PCT managers, as well as patient charities, health consumer groups and national 'expert patient' bodies and organisations.
Flyer - pdf
A report on the meeting is available here
20 October 2004
Innovative Health Technologies: Innovation, Regulation and the Pharmaceutical
Industry
This was the second collaborative IHT/GSK Workshop to be held at Stevenage, as part of the broader links between the company and the programme as a whole.
Workshop objectives:
- to report results of recently completed, or completing research from the ESRC/MRC Innovative Health Technologies Programme to GSK research and stragtegic policy staff
- to explore issued that are of mutual interest to researchers and GSK
- to determine whether there are future opportunities beyond the Programme (such as new work recently supported by the ESRC in stem cells, pharmacogenetics) that might be taken up to develop the collaboration down specific paths.
The programme of talks is here - pdf
A report on the meeting will soon be available here
11-13 July 2003
Devices and Designs: Medical Innovation in Historical Perspective
Part Sponsored by the IHT Programme, co-organised by the Pickstone project team
Link - http://www.chstm.man.ac.uk/events/innovation.htm
Report - html
29-30 October 2003
IHT 2nd Annual Meeting
Open Session on Response & Commentary on Current Policy Relating to Genetics will take place on the morning of Thursday 30th October at Hamilton House, London
17-19 September 2003
SSM 47th Annual Scientific Meeting
University of Edinburgh
Information - doc
23 June 2003
One Day Workshop as part of the ESRC Social Science Week.
Run by the IHT Programme and the Science & Technology Studies Unit, University of York
Information
- pdf
Report
29 May 2003
Ageing, Health Technologies and the Built Environment
Flyer - pdf
Programme - pdf
Report
12 March 2003
"Caring to the end? A One Day Discussion Forum for Older People?
Final dissemination event for the Seymour project
5 March 2003
Reforming the Governance of Human Genetics: the Politics of Public Trust.
Second Stakeholder Workshop for the Salter project
Agenda - doc
5th November 2002
ABHI Medical Technology Forum
Jo-Anne Bichard from the Cohn PI & PII projects attended on behalf of the IHT Programme
Link -
http://www.abhi.org.uk/servlet/dycon/ztabhi/abhi/abhi/en/abhi/Competitiveness_Forums_Medical%2BTech
Report