Tomorrow and blogs

Hi all,

Just to encourage you to use the blog. Thanks to those of you who have registered and to encourage others to do the same. It's there for you to post ideas, ask for help, offer comments and suggestions to support each other as you go through the course and to support you when you delve back into work.

Registration is easy (ask John) and click on 'blog this' at the top of the page when you want to post a message to the group (also press F5 to refresh the blog once you have published to see your message appear). We will publish useful weblinks, links to papers, presentations etc so keep visiting to make sure you don't miss anything (be warned - we published photos from the last group).

We are really looking forward to tomorrow.

See you very soon,
Amanda x

Countdown to Thursday....

Hi all

Thanks for the biographies some of you have sent in. It's nice to know who you are and find out a little bit about you.

John and I are really looking forward to the course and we wanted to remind you to print off the papers (if you haven't already) and to bring a calculator. For those of you who feel mathematically challenged - rest assured - it's only addition, subtraction, nothing too hard!

Some of you are concerned that you are not clinicians or diabetes experts. Don't worry, you will each bring a rich mix of experience and knowledge of working with the NHS. We will be taking you through the critical appraisal process and we don't expect you to be experts.

See you on Thursday,

Amanda x

Welcome!

Hi to all of you who are booked on to the Sep course. John and I are looking forward to meeting you all.

Jill will send out the final programme shortly with everything you need for the course. You will receive a CD Rom in the post and you need to print off the programme, papers and checklists. Please allow enough time to do this!

To get you in the mood, have a look at this thought provoking paper....http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/holmes-deconstruction-ebhc-06.pdf

Please keep logging onto the blog to get up to date messages and to post anything you want to!

See you soon,

Amanda