Media Invitation: Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Royal Society of Medicine
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You are cordially invited to attend a joint meeting of Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Palliative Care Section of the Royal Society of Medicine titled ‘Palliative and end of life care for all – is everybody equal’ on 22 March 2013. The research conference seeks to explore the challenges of delivering palliative and end of life care for potentially excluded groups including lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people, ethnic minorities, and people with learning disabilities. Marie Curie Cancer Care will also be announcing the awarding of new funding to research projects looking at key topics in end of life care – ranging from the care needs of terminally-ill prisoners to clinical decision making in stroke patients at the end of life. The Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Programme grants – totalling £760,000 – will help health professionals understand the implications for meeting changing health needs in different settings. This research conference (#EOLCequality) will explore meeting the needs of an increasingly diverse UK population. #EOLCequality @MarieCuriePA @RoySocMed One to one interviews with conference speakers and some of the research grant holders can be organized on request. Where: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G OAE If you wish to attend in person, please email media@rsm.ac.uk or call Rosalind Dewar on 01580 764 713. If you cannot attend but wish to speak with grant holders or Marie Curie staff contact Victoria Silver by email: victoria.silver@mariecurie.org.uk or call 020 7599 7292. |
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Rosalind Dewar, Royal Society of Medicine
- 01580 764 713
- media@rsm.ac.uk
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1. Marie Curie Cancer Care is one of the UK’s largest charities. Employing more than 2,700 nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals, it provided care to more than 35,000 terminally ill patients in the community and in its nine hospices last year and is the largest provider of hospice beds outside the NHS.
2. Funding - Around 70 per cent of the charity’s income comes from the generous support of thousands of individuals, membership organisations and businesses, with the balance of our funds coming from the NHS.
3. Research - The charity provides core funding for three palliative care research facilities; the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit at University College London, the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool and the Marie Curie Palliative Care Centre at the Wales Cancer Trials Unit (Cardiff University). The charity also supports palliative and end of life care research through its project grant funding streams, the Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Programme (administered by Cancer Research UK) and the Dimbleby Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Fund. Both research programmes aims to tackle the funding and knowledge gap in palliative and end of life care research, which in turn will benefit patients, families and carers. The charity also funds seven fundamental scientific research groups which investigate the causes and treatments of cancer.
4. The Royal Society of Medicine is one of the country's major providers of postgraduate medical education. It has 56 Sections which each provide a multi-disciplinary forum for discussion and debate. Sections cover disciplines as diverse as epidemiology and public health, medical genetics and clinical hypnosis. As well as providing education, the Society aims to promote an exchange of information and ideas on the science, practice and organisation of medicine, both within the health professions and with responsible and informed public opinion. The Society is not a policy-making body and does not issue guidelines or standards of care. Over 400 academic and public meetings are held at the RSM every year. The Society's library is the second largest postgraduate medical library in the world.