Announcing the winners of the Rosamund Snow Prize

We are delighted to announce the winners of theRosamund Snow Prize. This prize will enable two people aged under 30 with experience as health service users to join other healthcare consumers*, researchers and health professionals at Cochrane ’s global conference (the Cochrane Colloquium), which takes place on 16th - 18th September 2018  in Edinburgh.The Rosamund Snow PrizeRosamund Snow (1971-2017) will be remembered by many for her work to champion patients ’ involvement in healthcare. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in her teens, Rosamund was later asked to help a consultant at her outpatient clinic investigate its high ‘did not attend’ rate; she explains what she found in this talk.  Urging her audience to involve patients in service quality improvement, Rosamund said: “All you have to do is ask us. And we can turn your bag full of question marks into a lightbulb moment.”At the time of her death, Rosamund ’s work included helping to develop patient involvement in curriculum design and teaching communication skills to medical students in Oxford, and championing the increased involvement of patients at the BMJ, where she was Patient Editor. Rosamund ’s mother, Mary Snow, has established a prize in Rosamund’s name to enable two people aged under 30, with experience as health service users and an interest in evidence-based medical research, to attendthe  Cochrane Colloquium 2018.Rosamund was one of the first people involved in consultations about the poss...
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