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About the site
This site is run by Bruce Hugman, the author, independently of Pharmaceutical Press, the publishers. Bruce’s hope is that this will become a place where everyone interested in healthcare communication and patient welfare can find something of interest and contribute their ideas and proposals for improving healthcare relationships and effectiveness around the world. Should there be a second edition of the book, then visitors to this site have the chance of contributing to enriching that publication too.
Additional resources will also be available in due course at www.pharmpress.com in Online Resources, under the title of the book.
Publisher’s disclaimer:This website is run by the author of Healthcare Communication, Bruce Hugman, and does not express the views or concerns of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain or its publishing house, Pharmaceutical Press. Pharmaceutical Press can accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever in respect of its operation or content.
Site rules and author’s disclaimer
The rules for comments on the blog and in the forum are simple: courteous, accurate, honest communication; respect for others; non-discriminatory views and language. Visitors who offend these rules will have their comments removed and their email consigned to spam.
Bruce Hugman cannot take any responsibility for the content of external sites nor for the views and opinions expressed by visitors to this site. The entire contents of this site represent personal opinions, ideas and speculation and should not be taken literally or uncritically as the basis for action without further serious thought and analysis.
About the author
Since 1995 Bruce Hugman has been consultant in communications to the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring), in Uppsala Sweden. He has written extensively on healthcare communications, particularly relating to pharmacovigilance and patient safety, and teaches and lectures in many parts of the world. His careers include teaching English and social studies in schools and universities, managing an agricultural smallholding, working in the criminal justice system as a probation and training officer, holding senior public relations posts in public transport operations and, for over a decade, running his own communications company in the UK before going freelance. He lives in Thailand.
Short bibliography:
Literary criticism
Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Studies in English Literature, Arnold)
Radical probation practice
Act Natural: a new sensibility for the professional helper (NCVO)
Law and society
Spotlight on law and society (Pitman)
Crime (Arnold)
Violence (Arnold)
Biography
Time to let go: the life and death of a young man
Pharmacovigilance
Viewpoint Parts 1 and 2: the work of the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC - WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring)
Crisis management
Expecting the worst: anticipating and managing medicinal product crises (WHO/UMC)
Job application skills
When can you start? (EQUUS)
Contributor to Drug Safety, International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine; joint contributing author to Brian L. Strom and Stephen E. Kimnel (eds), Textbook of Pharmacoepidemiology; Wiley (2006)
Further details and information available on Amazon under the author’s name, where several of these titles are available.
Acknowledgement
Bruce Hugman is grateful to Jacob Engstrand of Uppsala, for his superfast and sympathetic development of this site. Without his help, it would never have happened.