Policy Connect

Chair: Baroness Finlay, a distinguished palliative care doctor, and a Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group will be chairing the event.

Assistive Technology (AT) can unlock the world of play for disabled children. And play allows children to learn AT skills that can be adapted to new uses as they grow up. AT facilitated play can even allow parents, play professionals, and teachers to gain insight into a child’s development.

A joint event hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change, the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.

The Minister for Housing & Planning, Alok Sharma MP, will be addressing an APPCOG audience on 7 November in Parliament.

NHS England is currently looking at embedding personalised medicine into mainstream healthcare, so that clinicians from oncology and other mainstream medical specialties outside clinical genetics can access and use genomic testing, but there is still a long way to go before access to genomic medicine becomes reality for all patients. So what needs to happen now and will be the benefits for patients in decades to come?

The APMG will be hosting a panel discussion with key parliamentarians and industry figures to highlight the important topic of integrated supply chains within the EU.

An event to mark the 10th anniversary of the Faculty of Pain Medicine and the 50th anniversary of The British Pain Society

The All-Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group (APDIG) and All-Party Parliamentary Group for Skills and Employment (APGSE) - in collaboration with the Edge Foundation and Design and Technology Association - are delighted to host an exclusive panel event and showcase, demonstrating how design and technology at the secondary level can be used to train the next generation of designers and engineers as part of a new industrial strategy.