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Hayley Hubberstey, HCD Economics Real World Evidence (RWE) lead for research in Sickle Cell Disease, attended ASCAT last week (21st – 23rd October) and shares her selection of highlights from the conference in this report, and comments on how these inform and support the need for RWE research in SCD.

HCD Economics are looking to hire an experienced Project Coordinator for an immediate start to help grow the project management side of the business

In Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), RWE (Real world evidence) is important and useful for individual patients and families. John James, CEO of the Sickle Cell Society (SCS), speaks to HCD Economics about our forthcoming RWE research partnership.

Writing in the Sage Journal, Medicine Access@Point of Care, Jasmine Barman-Aksözen reports on a personal case study that highlights the importance of patient empowerment and reports on what can be achieved in terms of access to treatment. The full article, published in August 2019, is available (link below), this news item focuses on the ‘take home messages’, summarised within the paper. HCD Economics completely endorses the criteria for meaningful participation as outlined in the paper.

Cath Stanley, Chief Executive of The Huntington’s Disease Association (HDA), speaks to Hayley from the HCD Huntington’s Disease study team about wanting to make a difference for patients and families affected by Huntington’s Disease and how the HDA partnership with HCD and University of Chester on the forthcoming Real World Evidence (Burden of Illness) study will work in practice and how the evidence drawn from the study will be a part of making that difference.

An article published in the June 2019 edition of the Journal 'Research Involvement and Engagement' reports the findings from work undertaken by the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The article describes the experience of the authors (Amelia Jewell et al) in setting up a service user and carer advisory group with the aim of providing feedback and advice to researchers developing or making use of database linkages in the field of mental health research. After a trial period of 12 months, the team conducted an evaluation of the group with both group members and presenters.

HCD announces new research collaboration in support of patients with Sickle Cell Disease.