Today we host the fourth Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Diagnostics (MEED) Research Forum. Here’s the schedule of excellent speakers. Full details on how to register and attend are on our website: meed-hta.org

See you there!

🎉 Congratulations to our very own Paola Cocco who this week has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Integrating early economic evaluation into the development of Target Product Profiles for new diagnostic tests”

#PhDSuccess #diagnostics #HealthEconomics #phdlife

📣 We have a new paper out! Led by Alison Smith, the study explores the impact of a primary care risk assessment test (PinPoint) for breast cancer on secondary care clinic waiting times and workflow rdcu.be/cYyn8
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Excited to be presenting my work on capacity modeling at the joint Medtech and In Vitro Diagnostics Methodoligy Group Meeting today. Great to reconnect and hear about all the amazing research going on NIHR Leeds MIC @cypmedtech NIHR Community Healthcare MIC NIHR London IVD Co-operative @NIHR_NCL_MIC @MIC

1/25 Round-up of thoughts on the #buildingsafetybill

The Bill cleared Parliament earlier this evening. It will now become an Act of Parliament.

The Bill will not come into force (be legally effective) for a period of some time, perhaps years in some cases.

Hayley has come to the protest from Leeds, she was made bankrupt and was effectively made homeless after finding out her flat was covered with unsafe cladding

Obviously £10,000 is better than £100,000+

But this is still unfair!

We didn’t build the buildings, we don’t own the buildings. We certainly didn’t cut corners, use flammable materials or put people’s lives at risk.

Leaseholders should pay £0

Shame the Conservatives disagree

Several reports that Michael Gove has succumbed to lobbying from the rogue construction sector as it appears developers will get away with a useless 'pledge' to remediate some buildings they built, rather than be forced to pay £4bn to fix their negligence.
constructionnews.co.uk/government/4bn…

1/14 #buildingsafetybill Last night, we were told that the value of properties for the caps are to be calculated in accordance with the ONS House Price Index.

I sat down this morning and did some calculations for my own flat based on the actual sale prices achieved since 2001.

15/16 Ultimately, whilst there have been material improvements in the Bill, we are still in a most unsatisfactory position.

This can, and should, have been resolved years ago.

The fact that it is still not resolved is a national embarrassment.

3/16 The government can, and should, have done much better than a last minute package of amendments to protect leaseholders.

That should have been at the core of the Bill from day 1. It is a stain on this government's reputation that it was not.

1/16 #buildingsafetybill Where are we now?

The Lords completed Report stage today.

It crunched through 276 amendments in about 7 hours of debate, so only a superficial review of a Bill that will have far reaching effects on residential buildings for the next 30-40 years, plus.

The University of Leeds will be paying a USS deficit recovery payment of £12,431,900 in the 2022/23 academic year, even though they now know from the USS directly that the deficit recovery cost is 0%. Why do you think they want to squander money like that?

My letter to Michael Gove asking him to require lenders to give leaseholders consent to let. Many cannot sell, but need to move for new jobs & family reasons. I will continue campaigning to support leaseholders UK Cladding Action Group End Our Cladding Scandal

So, students, so you know, I’m working my full contractual hours, with Covid, but University of Leeds tells me they might dock my pay if I don’t find extra hours, hours that even timetabling staff can’t find, to do work I haven’t been paid for during strike days.

Just want to say to colleagues who follow me here who are not striking: I think I'm losing about £1000 in my pay packet this month, in part because I'm trying to protect your pension

If you have resigned as an external examiner in support of our ongoing disputes, please add your name here! It’s being collected to show the scale of resignations that are happening. (And if you know a colleague who has resigned send this their way?) #USSmess #OneOfUsAllOfUs

Fellow colleagues University of Leeds please consider signing this petition to the Vice Chancellor, to make sure the proposed Town Hall meetings are truly open and honest.
Leeds University UCU forms.gle/uknVHBY3j2BRsx…

My thoughts are with the 1million who’ve fled #Ukraine because they might be killed. The millions who fled #syria and many other millions escaping repression,poverty, war. They all pray they’ll be welcomed in other countries as human beings. That’s all they ask 2/2 #refugees

What does it mean when we talk about real terms pay in Higher Education dropping by over 20%, what impact is it having on individual members, & how does it practically interact with precarity & promotions inequality?

TLDR: It's dire, & there is no valid reason for it to be.
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