News round up

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Professor Peter Griffiths has been widely quoted in the media this week as lead researcher for a University study which showed the higher the ratio of healthcare support staff to hospital nurses, the higher the rate of "failure to rescue" in hospitals.

Media coverage includes the Telegraph, Nursing Times and the Daily Mail to name a few.

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4Tech on the BBC Arabic Channel has aired a feature on Professor Joy Conway and her research work using a Gamma Camera.  The feature piece starts at 19:10 and further information can be found here.

Although many English ears may not understand the language, the 25 million viewers that do watch the show will!

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Congratulations to Emma Boger, Sara Demain and Sue Latter for wining best poster at the National Stroke Forum Conference.  Emma's poster 'Stuck between expectation and hope: The experience of self-management for people after stroke - a focus group study' highlighted how people with stroke feel disempowered by a lack of support structures to help them self-manage after stroke. 

Sara Demain also presented "Beyond therapy discharge - self-referral, self-management or fending for yourself" and a result of the interest expressed by delegates Sara is going to establish a new national network for clinicians, researchers and people with stroke who are interested in supported stroke self-management. 

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Nursing student Alice North has had an article published about student nurses beginning their placements in online newspaper Soton Tab.

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