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UK Supreme Court closes the gap between ‘legal consent’, ‘informed consent’ and the ‘best interest’ of the patients!

UK Supreme Court (UKSC) judgment in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board has closed the gap between ‘legal consent’, ‘informed consent’ and the ‘best interest’ of the patients. The full judgment, the point of law decided and the rationale for the decision (ratio decidendi) of this important case...

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Thalassaemia International Federation leading postgraduate online patient centred medical education

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Dr. Androulla Eleiftheriou is the Executive Director of Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF) and an IAPO Board Member. In this specially commissioned article, she explores how patients at TIF have led the way in patient centred medical education. TIF set-up an innovative online MSc degree in...

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Can medically educated patients solve the global shortage of quality health professionals for UHCs by 2030?

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WHO World Health Assembly (May 2016), WHO Regional Committee Meetings (Sep-Oct 2016) and the UN General Assembly Debate (Sep 2016) had great discussions on SDG 2030, UHC and health workforce strengthening. Kawaldip Sehmi, our CEO, has assembled critical thinking on this matter of some of the '...

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Patient involvement in medical education: 'educating-in' patient centredness

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Dr. Matthias Wienold (IAPO Treasurer and Board Member) and Stijntje Dijk (Liaison Officer International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) ) Stijntje, whom you all met at our Global Patients Congress 2016, and I held a joint workshop at the Association for Medical Education in...

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The role of IAPO members in European research projects

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IAPO is part of Get Real , a multi-stakeholder research project of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) that aims to investigate how real-world evidence can be effectively used in the drug development process. Within the research consortium, IAPO is carrying out research on patients’...

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Will the UN General Assembly be able to address the health needs of migrant and refugee patients?

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Board member Hussain Jafri reporting from the multi-stakeholder hearing of the UN General Assembly High-Level Summit on migrants and refugees 18-22 July 2016, United Nations, New York The most vulnerable patients in the world From the jungles of Central America, deserts of North Africa to the...

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FIFARMA se reúne para los pacientes de América Latina

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Informe de Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO de IAPO, sobre la reunión estratégica de FIFARMA en la ciudad de Panamá ! Un buen inicio: invite a los pacientes a observar! Como todos nosotros, es posible que usted esté buscando en Internet el significado del acrónimo FIFARMA . ¡Encontrará muy poco sobre él! La...

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An African Medicines Agency - any room for African patients engagement?

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Board Member Joshua Wamboga reports from the World Health Organization Africa's 66th Regional Committee meeting held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 19-23 August 2016 Saving the best for last Africa has a way of dragging out the best for last when it comes to important discussions on health. The World...