News round up
A summary of the latest news and intelligence from around the Faculty.
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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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