Events

Event: Synthesising qualitative research evidence on patients’ views and experiences: methodological issues and utility
21st April 2008 – Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus
This is a one day meeting focused on the role, methods, challenges and limitations of synthesizing experiences of health, illness and care. Wide ranging presentations will include a paper on “text mining” – a new technique to capture users’ views from web based material. Click here for more information.

Call for abstracts: Managing scarcity in health care: theory-to-practice and practice-to-theory
Deadline for abstracts: 30th April 2008
Date of event: 28th to 31st October 2008, Sage Gateshead, Newcastle-Gateshead, UK
The International Conference on Priorities in Health Care is the biennial conference of the International Society on Priorities in Health Care (Ltd). The 7th International Conference will take place at the Sage Gateshead Tuesday 28th – Friday 31st October 2008. The main theme is about achieving greater action on priority setting and improving frameworks used for this purpose across lower and higher income countries for the greater benefit of the populations served. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th April 2008. Click here for more information.

Inviting research proposals
Two commissioning briefs inviting research proposals have been posted by the Methodology Research Programme (MRP). The titles are:

· Use of Bayesian methods to inform health technology assessment decision-making
· Valuing the ‘patient experience.’

The deadline for commissioned proposals for both of these titles is 11th March 2008. Further information about the application process and a detailed brief are available here.