Gail ~

If this was a truly #patientsincluded event according to the charter (https://patientsincluded.org/conferences), a minimum of 2 scholarships covering all travel/expenses/registration costs would be provided. It's up to the conference to whom they want to open up the scholarships to; for instance, for Quality Forum in BC, access to the conference was open to members of Patient Voices Network. They ended up funding 20 (amazing!) patients to attend. So, many different ways it can be done. I would hope that Infoway would try to push towards official #patientsincluded accreditation.

Hi Claude

Is today (Wednesday) still possible for you? Friday is also still fine for me.

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Virginia, I don't know if they will fund patient participation. It is worth sending an email to them to ask. I know some of our colleagues have done that with other conferences in the past. It sometimes works.

I, too, have chronic pain which is mostly manageable, coming from a car accident some 40+ years ago. I'm off to the doctor to try again to get some help other than pills tomorrow. Mostly I have just given up since it usually does not get in the way of my carrying on other than exhaustion and distraction.

Good luck with the conference - do let us know how it goes. Alies

I have applied for one of these . I just as I am writing this been notified that I will receive a patient scholarship

I'm on a research team with a pharmacist who develops materials for doctors. I have a copy of the PDF of the material that I can email to you.

We can remove from PAN as I believe she has gone on to the next steps. I got some opinions from my support group friends.

I could put it on PAN but not sure how to post a pdf from my computer