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INVITATION
to a public discussion
Should We Have More Say in Our Treatment?
16 March, 19.00 - 20.30
The Dana Centre, 165 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 5HG
www.danacentre.org.uk
nearest tubes South Kensington or Gloucester Road
Are you happy that doctors make the decisions about your treatment or should you be more involved in deciding what is best for you? Join us to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities that we face in medical care.
You are ill. You go to the doctor. He prescribes medicine. You take it and you get better. But what happens when you have a really serious illness that means time in hospital, complex drug regimes, surgery and rehabilitation? A brain tumour, for example. It’s scary and confusing. The side-effects are getting you down. You want to know what these medicines are really doing. Are there other treatments? Should you be talking to the doctors about what is best for you? You as an individual, that is, not you as one of thousands with the same condition. The NHS has set up the expectation that patients should be more involved in decisions about their care but is this myth or a reality?
Chairman
Dr Sophie Petit-Zeman, author of Doctor, What’s Wrong?
Professor Garth Cruickshank, Neurosurgeon, University Hospital, Birmingham.
Dr David Levy, Oncologist, Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield
Mrs Tina Mitchell, Hammer Out and United Brain Tumour Campaign
Mrs Amanda St Prendeville who has a brain tumour
Event organised by
The European Dana Alliance for the Brain
and the United Brain Tumour Campaign (www.ubtc.org.uk)
Celebrating Brain Awareness Week
Tickets are free but places must be booked.
Further information: Elaine Snell elaine@snell-communications.net
OR wendy@wayahead-btrc.org
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