BCS Bursaries - Integrating Health and Social Telecare at HC2007

The British Computer Society offers an annual Bursary Scheme for NHS staff and other Health, Social Care and IT professionals to attend the Health Computing Conference, Harrogate 2007 ( March 19-21).

http://www.health-informatics.org/

The Healthcare Computing 2007 (HC2007) Committee is offering 9 bursaries for NHS & Social Care staff to attend the next Health Computing Conference and Exhibition at Harrogate . Postgraduate students of Health Informatics are particularly encouraged to apply.

The scheme is organised by the British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum (http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.6044 ).

Last year over 700 delegates from UK, Europe, USA and the Far East
attended the Conference, and over 2000 people attended the associated exhibition in 4 halls at the Harrogate Conference centre.

The bursaries cover:
1) Conference fees, and all fees for the Social program
2) A contribution to travel expenses to the conference, within the UK (inc. N. Ireland) by the Award Holder. No travel costs outside the UK can be considered, nor costs of partners.
3) Single accommodation for 3 nights at a hotel nominated by the BCS in Harrogate ( 18th- 20th March 2007). No other accommodation claims will be entertained.

Candidates are required to :

1) Submit a brief essay (not more that 2000 words) on the following topic:
CHALLENGING BOUNDARIES – Integrating Health and Social Telecare

Further details:  http://www.networks.nhs.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1850

Dr Nicholas Robinson
HC2007 Bursary Manager
n.robinson@...