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Architects for Health:
Designing for Cancer Care

Thursday 1st November 2001 at the RIBA, London

Chair: Dr Ann Noble, Chair, Architects for Health
Introduction: The recent Health Building Note

Speaker 1: Prof. Karol Sikora, Imperial College School of Medicine: Keynote address
Topic: Building for the future of Cancer Care
Focus: Clinical policy end practice, Role of the environment - an overview

Speaker 2: Prof. Jessica Comer, Director of the Centre for Cancer and Palliative Care, Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden Hospital
Topic: Humanising the Technology
Focus: The patient experience of acute care, new values and visions

Speaker 3: Sue Francis, MARU (Medical Architecture Research Unit) with Simon Henderson, Head of Building, Macmillan Cancer Relief
Topic: Recent initiatives, Patients needs and briefing
Focus: Recent evaluations, best practice, patient focus groups

Speaker 4: Andrew Anderson, National Coordinator, Maggie's Centre Edinburgh
Topic: Special needs, special places
Focus: Designing for care and the Maggie's Centre vision and approach

Speaker 5: Mrs Gail Sharp, Caring Services Director, Marie Curie Cancer Care
Topic: Palliative Care
Focus: Current policy and practice: development strategies and initiatives

Panel discussion/ questions from the floor
Introductory comments from Dr Nigel Tomlinson, Chief Scientific Advisor, NHS Estates

Open Forum

Vote of thanks: Roger Walters, Bickerdike Allen Partners