CLAHRC EOE News and Events
Health Foundation films – The Power of People The Health Foundation have launched a series of five films that show the power of people in improving healthcare. Each of the short films can be viewed by clicking on the titles below: Pills: Reviewing medication in care homes – telling the story of how the […]
PhD Studentship: Hospital Preventable Mortality – measurement and response Application deadline: 1st December 2015 CLAHRC West Midlands are pleased to offer this full-time 3yr PhD studentship opportunity. It will be based in the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham is available working with West Midland Trusts on the […]
Christina-Jane Crossman-Barnes: My Journey to becoming a PhD student When I graduated from my undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Southampton, I knew that I wanted to continue in a health-related field as health issues have always been of interest to me. After doing some research into […]
We’d like to draw your attention to the latest National Institute for Health Research Central Commissioning Facility (NIHR CCF) Newsletter. This double edition for November / December 2015 features: UK Rapid Response Team Competition NIHR Obesity Themed Call Professor Dame Sally C. Davies repsonse to ‘Going the extra mile’ LinkedIn […]
Health Research Authority (HRA) changes – Cohort 3 going live 30 November Here is the latest update in the HRA’s Approval process of rolling out a new system for approving research in the NHS in England, which will replace existing arrangements for NHS Permission/ Assurance. The HRA will assess regulatory compliance and […]
Sue Jones, PhD student on the NIHR research capacity in dementia care pilot programme (RCDCP): The psycho-social needs of carers This time last year I hadn’t considered doing a PhD, I was enjoying my clinical work as an Admiral Nurse and only found the CLAHRC PhD opportunity when idly scrolling […]
The PROMISE Project and Charter The CLAHRC EoE funded PROMISE project (PRO-active Management of Integrated Services and Environments) devised by Dr Manaan Kar-Ray, clinical director of adult services at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), and expert-by-experience Sarah Rae, restates the Trust’s commitment to helping service-users towards recovery. Hosted by CPFT, the PROMISE […]
Lead author Sarah Hoare, (PhD student, Cambridge Institute of Public Health) and co-authors including CLAHRC PI Dr Stephen Barclay, are pleased to announce the publication and press release of their paper ‘Do Patients Want to Die at Home? A Systematic Review of the UK Literature, Focused on Missing Preferences for Place […]
Are you an academic looking to develop your mentoring skills? NIHR CLAHRC EoE is looking for senior academics to mentor an ‘academic apprentice’ for a period of either 3 to 6 months, as part of their Clinical Academic Psychiatry Training apprenticeship scheme 2016. What is the aim of the scheme? The aim is to […]
Challenging the Commodification of Care as a Means for Improving the Wellbeing of Men and Women With Learning Disabilities In the wake of a number of high profile failings in social care, most notably the abuse of people with severe learning disabilities at Winterbourne View in 2011, there has been […]