Health Sciences news roundup on 13th November 2014
A summary of the latest news and intelligence from around the Faculty.
Researchers including Professors Alison Richardson and Mandy Fader, and Associate Professor Lucy Brindle, have been awarded three grants from the Movember Foundation totalling £2.06m. They will investigate how to improve continence management, how men and their families can be empowered to make better informed decisions about their care and treatment and how the care given after treatment can be improved. Read more about the studies here.
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Congratulations to pre-registration physiotherapy student, Faye Burrow, who gave a podium presentation at the Society for Back Pain Research Conference in Dublin last week. Her presentation (with supervisor Dr Lisa Roberts) was entitled “Shut up and listen”: Measuring the prevalence of verbal interruptions during clinical encounters. Only the 19 highest-scoring abstracts received a podium presentation.
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Congratulations also go to Dr Lisa Roberts who has been made President of the Society for Back Pain Research which is a great honour, not least because it is the leading back pain research society nationally.
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Professor Carl May has an editorial published in the BMJ,‘Thinking about the burden of treatment’, with fellow author from the University of Glasgow, Frances S Mair, Professor of Primary Care Research.
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Following the release of our research about hot flushes going unrecognised by healthcare professionals, led by Debbie Fenlon, the story has been widely covered by Asian media including Asian News International<, Business StandardNews Now, Yahoo News India and Delhi Daily News.
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Congratulations to our third year OT students who held their 'Tea with an OT' event to promote national OT week 2014 and the profession last week. Thank you to everyone who attended, including Mayor of Southampton, Councillor Sue Blatchford, and showed their support. The photos from the event are on our>Facebook page.
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Finally…in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nursing Professor Alan Glasper discusses the latest initiative from the Department of Health and Department for Communities and Local Government to improve care planning for the elderly in the community.