Our latest workshop on the 22nd January focused on the topic of leadership within a rare patient group. We all know that leadership is a skill we should be very aware of and try to be good at but sometimes it’s hard to know how to start thinking about your own leadership skills. In a patient group context when employees and volunteers are often busy with other things, leaders don’t always have time to reflect on and improve their practice.
The Student Voice Prize 2019 proved to be our most popular yet. We received more entries than ever before, from 19 different universities in 6 different countries. The standard was high as ever and all of the judges were very impressed with the quality of the entries…
While we have dedicated a lot of time to running our annual conference to showcase excellence in the field, there has been less emphasis on educating the patient community. We thought that it was about time this changed, so on Tuesday 5th November we partnered with the MCDS-Therapy project to host our Diving into Drug Repurposing workshop at White and Case in London. This day-long event aimed to help patient organisations understand: