Following the recent Department of Health Report, Achieving Age Equality
\nin Health and Social Care, UCL is pleased to announce a free one day
\nconference on the topic of how the NHS should deal with questions of age
\nwhen making decisions about which treatments to fund at the end of
\nlife.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This conference is supported by the UCLH\/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical
\nResearch Centre and the UCL Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
\nMedicine.
\nProgramme
\n9.30am Coffee and registration<\/p>\n
10am Welcome Jo Wolff (UCL)<\/p>\n
10.15am How does NICE view age? Andrew Stevens (Birmingham)<\/p>\n
11am Age weighting and the QALY. Mark Sculpher (York)<\/p>\n
12pm Age discrimination: some analytical issues. John Macnicol (LSE)<\/p>\n
1pm Lunch<\/p>\n
1.45pm Life saving treatments and the QALY. Aki Tsuchiya (Sheffield)<\/p>\n
2.45pm Is the rule of rescue dead? Sarah Edwards (UCL)<\/p>\n
3.30pm Tea<\/p>\n
4pm What matters in extending life? Jo Wolff (UCL)<\/p>\n
5pm Close
\nLocation<\/p>\n
Wellcome Trust, 183 Euston Road.
\nDate
\n16th April 2010.<\/p>\n
Registration<\/p>\n
To register, please email cbrc-courses@ucl.ac.uk and await
\nconfirmation.<\/p>\n
Further details of the conference available here:
\nhttp:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/cpjh\/Conference-NICE
\nFor all other enquiries, please contact Sarah Edwards
\n(sarah.edwards@ucl.ac.uk) or Jo Wolff (j.wolff@ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following the recent Department of Health Report, Achieving Age Equality in Health and Social Care, UCL is pleased to announce a free one day conference on the topic of how the NHS should deal with questions of age when making decisions about which treatments to fund at the end of life. […]<\/p>\n