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National Chronic Granulomatous Disease Registry – Psychological impact and cost effectiveness of CGD treatment

Do you have patients with chronic granulomatous disease?  If so please read the attached document on data collection for the National CGD Registry.

Haemophilia Specialists - £200 for one hour's website research

I work for a UK-based research company currently looking for haematology specialists (registered doctors/practitioners) to provide expert feedback on a new web-based medical information service aimed at worldwide haematologists, with a particular emphasis on those consultants specialising in haemophilia.

We would require only 60 minutes of your time, arranged at your own convenience with dates and times to suit, and will pay £200.00 as a thank you for your participation. The payment can be arranged to be paid by cheque or electronic transfer depending on personal preference.
The research will be in the form of an easy one-to-one, online discussion and can be conducted remotely from the comfort of your home or workplace (you would use an internet-enabled PC to view the site and our moderator would call you by telephone to ask your opinions).
 
The project commenced on the 9th August 2010 and is running until 25th August 2010 and is consulting specialists in the UK, Germany, Brazil, Japan and Canada. We are have already conducted several online discussions and
now require only two specialists to partake in the project at this time.

If this may be of some interest to you it would be most appreciated if you could contact me at your earliest convenience on this email or on one of the numbers below.

Interested participants will have to complete a short online screener to ensure they are suitable for the project. The screener on average takes only 3 minutes and can be conducted from any internet-enabled computer at a time convenient to the specialist.

Stephen Essex
Senior Researcher, MRFGR, a division of AGENTC Ltd
Company Number: 06482750
E: stephen@mrfgr.com
www.mrfgr.com

Offices:
MRFGR Leeds - +44 (0) 113 815 0205
MRFGR Manchester - +44 (0) 161 408 0084
MRFGR Birmingham - +44 (0) 121 288 0991
MRFGR London - + 44 (0) 207 617 7621

Head Office:
9 Hedon Rd
Kingston Upon Hull
East Yorkshire
HU9 1LL

Support for ACCEA Awards

The BSH is recognised by the ACCEA as an official nominating body.  We therefore invite applications from members for support for National Awards, ie Bronze, Silver or Gold.  The Society is not able to support candidates for Platinum awards or local awards for which different systems apply.  The Society is however able to support applicants in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Applications must be made on the attached documents; no other information (CV etc) will be considered.  It is relatively straightforward to copy and paste information from these documents into the online ACCEA system.  Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have separate systems and applications for BSH support may be made on the relevant national forms.
 
Please note that these forms are for use by the Society only and that formal application for higher awards can only be made using the ACCEA online system.

Bronze or Silver candidates may choose to submit ONE of the Supplementary forms with their application form. Gold candidates may choose to submit up to TWO of the forms below:

• Research/Innovation
• Teaching/Training
• Management/Leadership

Should a candidate choose to submit a supplementary form, the corresponding domain in the application form must be left blank.

The Society will follow a formal procedure as required by the ACCEA.  Applications will be considered by a panel comprising the BSH President, Immediate Past President, Treasurer and Secretary together with the Chair of BCSH, a lay member and three consultants who do not hold any national awards (at least one of whom has experience of BCSH).  They will be scored according to the scheme detailed on the ACCEA website.  Applicants may wish to draw particular attention to work done on behalf of the Society.
 
The ACCEA advises that consultants who successfully apply for a national award normally have at least a Level 4 Local CEA and have been in post for at least 10 years.  Therefore consultants who have been in post for less than 10 years or who do not hold a Level 4 local award or greater will only receive support from the Society in exceptional circumstances. Consultants in this position are advised to concentrate on the local award process.

The BSH ranking panel meeting is planned for mid-October and all applications for support must be made by 5pm on Friday 24th September 2010. Applications will only be considered when submitted on the standard ACCEA forms, which can be downloaded from the links below and sent by e-mail to the BSH Administrator: Daphne.Harvey@b-s-h.org.uk. As mentioned previously applicants from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland may use separate forms.

No additional information will be considered and the form should not be accompanied by any employer citations.

Statement of Fitness for Work

From 6 April 2006 a new Statement of Fitness for Work (the "fit note") will be introduced across England, Scotland and Wales to enable doctors to give their patients better advice about returning to work.

Details are available at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/healthcare-professional/news/statement-of-fitness-for-work.shtml