Welcome to the PatientView site

Founded in 2000, PatientView is an independent, global, research-and-publishing organisation that works closely with patients and health and social campaigning groups worldwide. PatientView surveys the opinions of patients and health advocacy groups on healthcare delivery and disease-based issues worldwide, analyses trends, and places many of the resulting reports into the public domain (thereby benefiting patients, citizens, and health advocacy groups, as well as other healthcare stakeholders).

PatientView's expertise in the area of health campaigning is aided by two of its major resources. First, Health and Social Campaigners' Network International, a very large global virtual network of health campaigning groups; and second, Health and Social Campaigners' News International, an eight-issues-per-year briefing document about the activities of health campaigners worldwide - free to health campaigners and available to other healthcare stakeholders on subscription.
Link to HSCNetwork and HSCNews International page

cover of HSCNews International, issue 42, April 2008 Patient advocacy in Germany and past issues

Other resources supplied by Patient View are:

· HSCNews Bulletin, a monthly email that provides details about the latest activities of the Network's members, and gives information about health campaigners' new appointments, campaigns, events, funding, publications, research, and websites. The Bulletin is free to all members of the Health and Social Campaigners' Network. Other organisations can subscribe to the Bulletin online. Link to Bulletin page

· Directories of health advocacy groups. Our latest publication, The European Patient Group Directory 2008 (a handbook of 172 pan-European groups), can be downloaded free online. Link to Directories page

· Regularly surveying our 70,000-strong email database of health campaigning organisations/patients for their opinions on healthcare subjects of interest to them. If you would like to know more about engaging PatientView to conduct a survey of patients or patients groups in any country (most diseases or disabilities), please email Louise Oatham on info@patient-view.com

· Datamining of PatientView's library of resources on any subject related to the world of health campaigning.

· Consultancy on any subject related to the world of health campaigning.

· Broadcasting Patients, a free service that helps health campaigning groups access media organisations (and vice versa). Link to Broadcasting Patients page

UPDATING OF PATIENTVIEW WEBSITE

The entire PatientView Website is updated on a monthly basis by the PatientView editorial director, Clive Nead (who functions as a named quality compliance officer for the site).

Date of last update: April 2008

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