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TB Survey for Scottish Physicians January 5, 2012

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Dear Colleague,

 Please find enclosed a link to a survey (online survey in Survey MonkeyTM) to evaluate the Tuberculosis surveillance system at your area:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6B7FMSL   

 We would be grateful if you would take the time to complete the survey before Wednesday 18th January 2012.

 Completing this survey takes only approximately 20 minutes, and it is completely anonymous.

 Please do NOT include personal information (e.g. names of individuals, addresses, patient information) or information on private companies in your responses.

 This work is being undertaken to evaluate the English and Scottish tuberculosis surveillance systems, furthermore by contrasting them to help Health Protection Scotland to change to the highest quality of TB surveillance achievable in the practice.

 Health Protection Scotland will collect and analyse survey responses. All survey responses will be deleted once a full dataset is complete; HPS will retain and securely store a copy of the dataset until issue of the final report the latest in September 2012. After request we will send you the report of the results.

 If you have any queries or require assistance with the survey, please contact Ida Prantner at HPS on 0141 300 1199 or email ida.prantner@nhs.net

 Thank you in anticipation of your assistance in this important project.

 Yours sincerely,

 Dr Ida Prantner

EPIET Fellow

Health Protection Scotland

NHS National Services Scotland
Health Protection Scotland

4th Floor
Meridian Court 

5 Cadogan Street
Glasgow G2 6QE 
T: 0141 300 1199
F: 0141 300 1170

Scadding-Morriston Davies Joint Fellowship in Respiratory Medicine 2012 November 29, 2011

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SCADDING-MORRISTON DAVIES JOINT
FELLOWSHIP IN RESPIRATORY MEDICINE 2012

This fellowship is available to support visits to medical centres in U.K. or abroad for the purpose of undertaking studies related to respiratory medicine. Applications are invited from medical graduates practising in the United Kingdom, including consultants and irrespective of the number of years in that grade. There is no application form but a curriculum vitae should be submitted together with a detailed account of the duration and nature of the work and the centres to be visited, confirming that these have agreed to provide the facilities required. Please state the sum of money needed for travel and subsistence. A sum of up to £20,000 can be awarded to the successful candidate, or the sum may be divided to support two or more applications. Applications should be sent to the Secretary by 31 January 2012.

Dr I A Campbell
Secretary to the Scadding-Morriston Davies Fellowship
Department of Respiratory Medicine
Academic Centre (2nd Floor)
Llandough Hospital
PENARTH, Vale of Glamorgan
CF64 2XX

Ian.campbell@wales.nhs.uk

Eyjafjallajoekull – Has it increased respiratory admissions in Scotland? April 21, 2010

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The Eyjafjallajoekull volcano cloud has caused havok in the UK no doubt, but has it caused any problems for patients? There are reports of organs for transplant being delayed in transit, but little information just now on how much the dust cloud has affected admission rates for those patients with chronic lung diseases.

Would anyone be interested in pooling admission data for March, April and May to determine if the cloud did have any effect on admissions? Scotland wide data on this might be interesting, and worth looking into.

If anyone is interested, let me know, or bring it up at the meetings on Thursday and Friday.

DC