The DISCERN Project 1996-7
The DISCERN Project was funded from 1996-7 by The British Library and the NHS
Executive Research & Development Programme
The original DISCERN Project Team consisted of:
- Sasha Shepperd, University Research Lecturer, Division of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford
- Deborah Charnock, Kendra Women's Development
PO Box 176
Sandwich Kent CT13 9WW
Tel: 01304 619 570
e-mail: deborah@kendra-women.org.uk
www.kendra-women.org.uk
- Gill Needham, Head of Strategic & Service Development
The Open University Library & Learning Resources Centre
Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Tel: 01908 858369
- Bob Gann, Director of New Media, NHS Direct, Strawberry Fields, Hedge End, Southampton SO30 2UN
- Ian Arnold, Cardiology Department, Horton General Hospital,
Banbury
Stephen Kennedy, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, John Radcliffe
Hospital, Oxford
- Michael Sharpe, University Department of Psychiatry, Royal
Edinburgh Infirmary, Edinburgh
Self-help group representatives
- Ian Barratt, Action for ME, Banbury Group
- Susan Gould, National Endometriosis Society, Reading Group
- David Pope, Heartbeat Club, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
General practitioners
- Roger Pietroni, London
- Cecilia Pyper, Oxford
Consumer health information expert
Helen Thompson, Trent Healthline, Nottingham
Lay medical publisher
Susan Harrison, Science Publications, Oxford University Press
Health journalist
Annabelle May, London
Health consumer representative
Sandy Oliver, Ashstead, Surrey
Community Health Council representative
Claire Laurent, Oxford
Plain English Campaign representative
James Middleton, Whaley Bridge
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination representative
Vikki Entwhistle, York
Further details of how DISCERN was developed were published in the Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health
For further information on the original DISCERN instrument and handbook, please
email Radcliffe Medical Press.